Paper Info
Title
Design and Evaluation of the RUPERT Wearable Upper Extremity Exoskeleton Robot for Clinical and In-Home Therapies.
Abstract
A wearable, portable, low-cost, and easy-to-use upper extremity exoskeleton robot, RUPERT, is presented here for clinical and in-home therapies of patients who have survived a stroke. The robot system has five degrees-of-freedom and is driven by compliant and safe pneumatic muscles. Its primary function is to assist the movement of an affected arm in 3-D space and perform a daily training program in a virtual environment. Subjects are recruited for experiments of both clinical and in-home therapies. While using RUPERT, most subjects exhibited significant improvements in various functional measures. During their in-home therapy trials, subjects expressed enthusiasm regarding the modules and the use of our robotic system. The experimental results look promising and the proposed robotic system exhibits a good prospect for a future commercialized in-home therapy product.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/TSMC.2015.2497205
IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Medical treatment,Robot kinematics,Training,Exoskeletons,Joints,Pneumatic systems
Robotic systems,Medical robotics,Wearable computer,Computer science,Robot kinematics,Training program,Medical treatment,Artificial intelligence,Exoskeleton,Physical medicine and rehabilitation,Machine learning,Exoskeleton robot
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
46
7
2168-2216
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
16
0.84
16
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
jian huang110811.44
Xikai Tu2224.47
Jiping He311017.46