Mechanical Development and Preliminary Control Results of a Cable-Driven Robotic Platform for Whole-Body Rehabilitation.

To promote whole-body rehabilitation in the early post-injury phase, a system is desirable to provide user transfer, automatic posture change and therapy for various arm-leg movements. This work aimed to present a cable-driven robotic platform that can provide whole-body rehabilitation for the user in a lying position and to demonstrate preliminary results for generation of 3D leg movements. Seventeen compact cable-driven actuators (CDAs) were designed and mounted on a robotic frame.

Development of a Belt-actuated Robotic Platform for Early Rehabilitation.

In order to promote early rehabilitation, we proposed a system which provides full-body arm-leg training for patients in a bed-lying position. As the preliminary development, a platform for leg movement was investigated. An innovative system with four servo drives was designed and manufactured.

Preliminary development and technical evaluation of a belt-actuated robotic rehabilitation platform.

Background: To provide effective rehabilitation in the early post-injury stage, a novel robotic rehabilitation platform is proposed, which provides full-body arm-leg rehabilitation via belt actuation to severely disabled patients who are restricted to bed rest.

Objective: To design and technically evaluate the preliminary development of the rehabilitation platform, with focus on the generation of various leg movements.

Methods: Two computer models were developed by importing the components from SolidWorks into Simscape Multibody in MATLAB.