Upper-Limb Rehabilitation Robot: A Measure of Intent Detection for Robot Aided Active Therapy Exercise

In robot-aided rehabilitation of post-stroke patients with upper limb impairment, robotic device must allow patient's effort in performing exercises. To estimate such effort, user's force exerted on robotic device can be used during active exercises. To validate use of force exerted by user/wearer by comparing with EMG signals as a measure of intent detection in robot-aided active therapy on rehabilitation robot, in this research, user's interactive force with robot was measured and compared with user's muscle activity (EMG) during elbow flexion-extension performed by an upper-limb rehabilitation robot (u-Rob).

Source: Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - March 1, 2022 Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Md Rasedul Islam, Md Assad-Uz-Zaman, Inga Wang, Mohammad Rahman Tags: Late Breaking Research Poster 1831994 Source Type: research