Developing a whole-arm exoskeleton robot with hand opening and closing mechanism for upper limb stroke rehabilitation

2009 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 761-765

  Ren, Yupeng ^a   Park, Hyung Soon ^b   Zhang, Li Qun ^a  

^a REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE; COMPUTER GAME; CROSS-COUPLINGS; EXOSKELETON ROBOTS; HAND EXOSKELETON; HAND MUSCLES; HAND OPENING; HAND POSTURE; MULTI-DOF; MUSCLE TENSION; MUSCLE TONE; NEUROMUSCULAR CONTROL; OUTCOME EVALUATION; ROBOT TRAINING; STROKE REHABILITATION; UPPER LIMBS;

JOINTS (ANATOMY); MUSCLE; PATIENT REHABILITATION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 70449393452     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209482     Document Type: Conference Paper

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