Development of rehabilitation support robot for personalized rehabilitation of upper limbs

Abstract

We develop a rehabilitation support robot for personalized rehabilitation of upper limbs. This robot is equipped with rehabilitation training support system and muscle testing system. The rehabilitation training support system enables therapists to easily make a training program to suit patients' individual needs. The muscle testing system enables therapists to easily perform muscle test instead of manual muscle test (MMT) and to evaluate the muscle strength quantitatively. Therefore therapists' load can be reduced, and therapeutic effect can be increased. In these systems teaching/guided function and control method of resistance force are used.