Conceptual Design and Analysis of a Hybrid Walking Cane

This work is aimed to design and analyze the staircase climbing aid, hybrid with the function of walking cane. The tremendous demand for living space increases the essentiality of staircase, corresponding to the escalation of fall injuries. The handrails complemented along with staircase had provided deficient safeguard for staircase user, particularly senior citizen and people with lower limb disability, who need staircase climbing aid to provide extra support during escalating or declining staircase.

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Conceptual Design of Customized Lower Limb Exoskeleton Rehabilitation Robot Based on Axiomatic Design

Procedia CIRP ◽

10.1016/j.procir.2016.07.010 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 53 ◽

pp. 219-224 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Aibin Zhu ◽

Shengli He ◽

Dayong He ◽

Yangyang Liu

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Design ◽

Lower Limb ◽

Axiomatic Design ◽

Rehabilitation Robot ◽

Lower Limb Exoskeleton

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Conceptual design of a lower limb exoskeleton actuated by shape memory alloys for assisting elderly people in stair climbing

2016 4th International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICROM) ◽

10.1109/icrom.2016.7886798 ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Payman Joudzadeh ◽

Alireza Hadi ◽

Khalil Alipour

Keyword(s):

Shape Memory Alloys ◽

Shape Memory ◽

Elderly People ◽

Conceptual Design ◽

Lower Limb ◽

Stair Climbing ◽

Lower Limb Exoskeleton

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Conceptual design of a novel variable stiffness actuator for use in lower limb exoskeletons

2015 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR) ◽

10.1109/icorr.2015.7281263 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Tomislav Bacek ◽

Ramazan Unal ◽

Marta Moltedo ◽

Karen Junius ◽

Heidi Cuypers ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Design ◽

Lower Limb ◽

Variable Stiffness ◽

Variable Stiffness Actuator

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Conceptual design of a lower limb motion assist robot with bodyweight support

2014 Second RSI/ISM International Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics (ICRoM) ◽

10.1109/icrom.2014.6990877 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Milad D. Farahani ◽

S. Ali A. Moosavian ◽

Payam Zarafshan

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Design ◽

Lower Limb

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Conceptual Design and Control of a Sitting-Type Lower-Limb Rehabilitation System Established on a Spatial 3-PRRR Parallel Manipulator

Advances in Service and Industrial Robotics - Mechanisms and Machine Science ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-48989-2_37 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 345-355

Author(s):

Santhakumar Mohan ◽

Parvathi Sunilkumar ◽

Larisa Rybak ◽

Dmitry Malyshev ◽

Sergey Khalapyan ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Design ◽

Lower Limb ◽

Parallel Manipulator ◽

Rehabilitation System ◽

Limb Rehabilitation ◽

And Control ◽

Lower Limb Rehabilitation

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Conceptual design of a gait simulator for testing lower-limb active prostheses

2015 16th International Conference on Research and Education in Mechatronics (REM) ◽

10.1109/rem.2015.7380413 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Cristiano Marinelli ◽

Hermes Giberti ◽

Ferruccio Resta

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Design ◽

Lower Limb

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Conceptual design and dimensional synthesis of a novel parallel mechanism for lower-limb rehabilitation

Robotica ◽

10.1017/s0263574718001121 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 37 (3) ◽

pp. 469-480 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Hui Wang ◽

Wen Li ◽

Haitao Liu ◽

Jianxin Zhang ◽

Songtao Liu

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Design ◽

Lower Limb ◽

Parallel Mechanism ◽

Generalized Jacobian ◽

Transmission Index ◽

Redundantly Actuated ◽

Kinematic Performance ◽

Limb Rehabilitation ◽

Local Transmission ◽

Lower Limb Rehabilitation

SUMMARYThis paper introduces a novel 2R1T parallel manipulator redundantly actuated by pneumatic muscles for lower-limb rehabilitation. First, the conceptual design of the proposed 3-DOF parallel mechanism is presented. Then, the inverse kinematics and the generalized Jacobian analysis are carried out. Based on the generalized Jacobian and the constraint characteristics of the mechanism, the force/motion transmissibility of the redundantly actuated parallel mechanism is investigatedviafour individual cases without actuation redundancy, leading to a suitable local transmission index for the evaluation of kinematic performance of the proposed mechanism. Finally, the design variables are optimized by maximizing the mean value of the local transmission index with the aid of genetic algorithm. The numerical result shows that the proposed parallel mechanism can achieve a good kinematic performance in its task workspace.

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A Knowledge Based System for the Selection of Muscles for Gait Phase Detection using EMGs

International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics ◽

10.4018/ijhisi.2017040102 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 18-45

Author(s):

Vasileios Syrimpeis ◽

Vassilis Moulianitis ◽

Nikos A. Aspragathos ◽

Elias Panagiotopoulos

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Design ◽

Lower Limb ◽

Lower Limbs ◽

Phase Detection ◽

Knowledge Based System ◽

Knowledge Based ◽

Rehabilitation System ◽

Gait Phase ◽

Correction System ◽

Selection Of

Purpose: This paper presents the development of a knowledge based system for the detection of gait phases based on EMGs from muscles of the lower limb. Methods: An empirical analysis of the EMG characteristics for the most representative muscle of every muscle group concerning their suitability for the gait phase detection is presented. The same approach is applied to every lower limb muscle where an EMG could be received. The entities and the decision-making mechanism of the knowledge based system is presented in a formal way. Results: A knowledge based system is built upon the knowledge acquired from this analysis. Finally, an example is presented where the developed knowledge based system is used to support the conceptual design of a drop foot correction system. Conclusions: The knowledge based system can be used in the conceptual design of any rehabilitation system for lower limb disabilities using EMG signals from the lower limbs.

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