Design of a rotational hydroelastic actuator for a powered exoskeleton for upper limb rehabilitation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 728-735

  Stienenw, Arno H A ^b   Hekman, Edsko E G ^a   Braak, Huub Ter ^c   Aalsma, Arthur M M ^c   Van Der Helm, Frans C T ^a,d   Van Der Kooij, Herman ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BAAT Medical ^*  (Netherlands)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Actuator design; Rehabilitation robotics; Stroke rehabilitation; Upper extremities

Indexed keywords

ACTUATOR DESIGN; ADMITTANCE CONTROL; FLEXIBLE TUBES; FREQUENCY RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; HYDRAULIC ACTUATOR; HYDROELASTIC; IMPEDANCE CONTROL; ISOMETRIC TORQUE; ITERATIVE IMPROVEMENTS; MAXIMUM OUTPUT; MULTISINE; REFERENCE SIGNALS; REHABILITATION ROBOTICS; REHABILITATION THERAPY; SPRING DESIGNS; STROKE REHABILITATION; THEORETICAL MODELS; TORSION SPRINGS; TRANSPORT DELAY; UPPER EXTREMITY; UPPER LIMBS; UPPER-LIMB REHABILITATION;

ACTUATORS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; HYDROELASTICITY; NEUROMUSCULAR REHABILITATION; ROBOTICS; TORQUE;

DESIGN;

ARM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; IMPEDANCE; ISOMETRICS; MECHANICAL TORSION; REHABILITATION CARE; RIGIDITY; SPECTRUM; THEORETICAL MODEL; TORQUE; TUBE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VALVE;

BIOMECHANICS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROBOTICS; STROKE; TORQUE; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 77649172176     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2018628     Document Type: Article

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