Abstract
In order to recover functional disorder, suitable rehabilitation and trained excellent physical therapists is required. Therefore, we developed the knee robot for understanding neuromuscular control system. The robot imitates patient's motions and human body model. The robot extends its lower thigh immediately after tapping its ligament below the patella with a small rubber hammer. The robot has a pneumatic artificial muscle for pulling up the lower thigh. It was selected by reference to the knee-jerk data of some healthy people which was measured in previous work. In this paper, we compared the angular velocity and the angle alternation of the knee robot with human data.
