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Gravity-Balancing Leg Orthosis and Its Performance Evaluation
- Тип контента: Научная статья
- Номер документа: 6092
- Название документа: Gravity-Balancing Leg Orthosis and Its Performance Evaluation
- Номер (DOI, IBSN, Патент): Не заполнено
- Изобретатель/автор: Wei-Li Hsu, Vijaya Krishnamoorthy, Sunil K. Agrawal, Sai K. Banala, Katherine Rudolph, John Scholz, Abbas Fattah
- Правопреемник/учебное заведение: Не заполнено
- Дата публикации документа: 2006-12-06
- Страна опубликовавшая документ: Не заполнено
- Язык документа: Английский
- Наименование изделия: Не заполнено
- Источник: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS,
- Вложения: Да
- Аналитик: Глаголева Елена
In this paper, we propose a device to assist persons with hemiparesis to walk by reducing or eliminating the effects of gravity. The design of the device inclu-des the following features:1) it is passive, i.e., it does not include motors or actuators, but is only composed of links and springs; 2) it is safe and has a simple patient–machine interface to accommodate variability in geometry and inertia of the subjects. A number of methods have been proposed in the litera-ture to gravity-balance a machine. Here, we use a hybrid method to achieve gravity balancing of a human leg over its range of motion. In the hybrid method, a mechanism is used to first locate the center of mass of the human limb and the orthosis. Springs are then added so that the system is gravity-balanced in every configuration. For a quantitative evaluation of the performance of the device, electromyographic (EMG) data of the key muscles, involved in the motion of the leg, were collected and analyzed. Further experi-ments involving leg-raising and walking tasks were performed, where data from encoders and force-torque sensors were used to compute joint torques. These experiments were performed on five healthy subjects and a stroke patient. The results showed that the EMG activity from the rectus femoris and hamstring muscles with the device was reduced by 75%, during static hip and knee flexion, respectively. For leg-raising tasks, the average torque for static positioning was reduced by 66.8% at the hip joint and 47.3% at the knee joint; however, if we include the transient portion of the leg-raising task, the average torque at the hip was reduced by 61.3%, and at the knee was increased by 2.7% at the knee joints. In the walking experi-ment, there was a positive impact on the range of movement at the hip and knee joints, especially for the stroke patient: the range of movement increased by 45% at the hip joint and by 85% at the knee joint.We believe that this orthosis can be potentially used to design rehabilitation protocols for pa-tients with stroke. Index Terms—Gait rehabilitation, gravity balancing, inverse dynamics, passive ortho-sis, rehabili-tation robotics.
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