Open AccessManipulator for upper limbs rehabilitation-ROBCO ®
Author(s) -
Nayden Chivarov,
Denis Chikurtev
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/878/1/012004
Subject(s) - rehabilitation , usability , manipulator (device) , elbow , computer science , physical medicine and rehabilitation , software , wrist , simulation , human–computer interaction , physical therapy , medicine , artificial intelligence , robot , surgery , programming language
This article presents a manipulator for upper limbs rehabilitation Robco ®. The manipulator will be able to allow rehabilitation of the shoulder, elbow and wrist. Manipulator’s hardware, software and web-based user interface have been researched and developed to allow the required functions and properties for rehabilitation procedures. Usability experiments have been performed to investigate the functionalities. The results demonstrate precise positioning and repeatability. Finally, we can conclude that the rehabilitation of upper limbs can be robotized, which will reduce time and costs of the rehabilitation procedures.