Rehabilitation Robot Cell for Multimodal Standing-Up Motion Augmentation

— The paper presents a robot cell for multimodal standing-up motion augmentation. The robot cell is aimed at augmenting the standing-up capabilities of impaired or paraplegic subjects. The setup incorporates the rehabilitation robot device, functional electrical stimulation system, measurement instrumentation and cognitive feedback system. For controlling the standing-up process a novel approach was developed integrating the voluntary activity of a person in the control scheme of the rehabilitation robot. The simulation results demonstrate the possibility of “patient-driven” robotassisted standing-up training. Moreover, to extend the system capabilities, the audio cognitive feedback is aimed to guide the subject throughout rising. For the feedback generation a granular synthesis method is utilized displaying highdimensional, dynamic data. The principle of operation and example sonification in standing-up are presented. In this manner, by integrating the cognitive feedback and �...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ICRA
• Authors: Roman Kamnik, Tadej Bajd, John Williamson, Roderick Murray-Smith
• Keywords: Cognitive Feedback, ICRA 2005, Rehabilitation Robot, Robot Cell, Robotics