Pneumatic Muscle Actuated Rehabilitation Equipment of the Upper Limb Joints

4th International Conference on Manufacturing and Industrial Technologies

机械制造;工业技术

Deaconescu, Andrea^1

Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Transilvania University Brasov, Romania^1

关键词: Low costs;    Pneumatic muscle;    Short response time;    Upper limbs;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/212/1/012011/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/212/1/012011

学科分类：工业工程学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Rehabilitation equipment of the upper limb joints holds a key role in passive physical therapy. Within this framework, the paper presents two such pieces of equipment developed for the rehabilitation of elbow and of wrist and knuckles, respectively. The presented and discussed equipment is actuated by pneumatic muscles, its benefits being a low cost, simple and robust construction, as well as short response time to commands.