1P1-M01 The trajectory control of the lower limbs movement assistant robot aimed for deep-vein thromboprophylaxis : The 2nd Report : Miniaturization of the robot and improvement of the interface(Medical Robotics and Mechatronics (1))

Abstract

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a disease suffer a blood clot in the vein of lower limb deep place mainly. In order to prevent DVT, we have been developing a prototype of the lower limbs movement assistant robot which forcibly moves a foot so as to improve blood circulation. We found that this robot is effective in preventing deep vein thrombosis. However, our prototype is still large, and also very heavy (10 [kg] weight), thus there is a problem in production. We have developed a improved one. In this paper, we describe a rehabilitation robot of version 2 with a new user interface that can be operated in a compact, lightweight and low cost.