Mechanical design of a distal arm exoskeleton for stroke and spinal cord injury rehabilitation

IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Pehlivan, Ali Utku ^a   Celik, Ozkan ^a   O'Malley, Marcia K ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Exoskeletons; haptic interface design; parallel mechanisms; spinal cord injury rehabilitation; stroke rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; DESIGN IMPROVEMENTS; ELBOW JOINTS; EXOSKELETONS; FLEXION-EXTENSION; MAXIMUM TORQUE; MECHANICAL DESIGN; NEW DESIGN; PARALLEL MECHANISMS; RADIAL-ULNAR DEVIATION; RANGE OF MOTIONS; ROBOTIC EXOSKELETONS; ROBOTIC REHABILITATION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STROKE REHABILITATION; UPPER EXTREMITY; WRIST FLEXION-EXTENSION; WRIST MECHANISM;

DOSIMETRY; HAPTIC INTERFACES; MECHANISMS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

DESIGN;

ARM; ARTICLE; ELBOW; FOREARM; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STROKE; WRIST;

ARM; ELBOW JOINT; FOREARM; HUMANS; ROBOTICS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STROKE; WRIST;

EID: 80055035608     PISSN: 19457898     EISSN: 19457901     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICORR.2011.5975428     Document Type: Conference Paper

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