Abstract
Stroke is one of the major causes of disabilities among elderly people which have a negative effect on the life quality and independent living. Robotic assisted rehabilitation enable physical therapists to create patient oriented, individual therapies aiming to achieve high level of recovery for the motoric lost functions. However there exists no standardization in the design of such devices. This paper presents a set of critical design characteristics and constraints for rehabilitation robotics. Based on this data an innovative spherical robot for shoulder rehabilitation is presented. Its workspace modelling and trajectory simulation illustrate the robot capabilities of performing from simple to complex trajectories having a high degree of universality for the given task.
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The paper presents results from the research activities of the project ID 37_215, MySMIS code 103415 “Innovative approaches regarding the rehabilitation and assistive robotics for healthy ageing” cofinanced by the European Regional Development Fund through the Competitiveness Operational Programme 2014–2020, Priority Axis 1, Action 1.1.4, through the financing contract 20/01.09.2016, between the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and ANCSI as Intermediary Organism in the name and for the Ministry of European Funds.
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Vaida, C., Carbone, G., Plitea, N., Ulinici, I., Pisla, D. (2018). Preliminary Design for a Spherical Parallel Robot for Shoulder Rehabilitation. In: Doroftei, I., Oprisan, C., Pisla, D., Lovasz, E. (eds) New Advances in Mechanism and Machine Science. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 57. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-79111-1_15
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