Title
Mouth opening and closing training with 6-DOF parallel robot
Abstract
This paper describes a 6 degrees freedom (DOF) parallel robot that is designed for the mouth opening and closing training. The rehabilitation for the patient who have problems on the jaw joint, mastication muscles, and other organs concerning the food chewing have been done primarily based on the doctor's technique. Conventional mouth opening apparatuses (such as wooden screws, bite blocks and clothespins-type apparatus) only increases mouth opening distance and do not have actuators, sensors, and/or control systems. Moreover, during therapy, the quantitative force data is unknown in spite of its importance for the standardization of mouth opening and closing training. Mouth opening and closing training robot WY-5 (Waseda Yamanashi No. 5) consists of mechanical, actuation, sensor and control systems. As a result of therapy using WY-5, the mouth opening distance increased
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1109/ROBOT.2000.844791
Robotics and Automation, 2000. Proceedings. ICRA '00. IEEE International Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
manipulators,patient rehabilitation,6-DOF parallel robot,WY-5,Waseda Yamanashi No. 5,chewing,jaw joint,mastication muscles,mouth closing training,mouth opening training,patient rehabilitation,quantitative force data
Parallel manipulator,Simulation,Control engineering,Medical treatment,Engineering,Control system,Bite block,Robot,Mastication,Actuator
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2
1
1050-4729
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7803-5886-4
17
6.04
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
H. Takanobu115534.35
Takeo Maruyama2177.06
Atsuo Takanishi31592319.81
Kayoko Ohtsuki45120.55