3P2-F02 Improvement of simulation accuracy of knee flexion and extension in KneeRobo(Rehabilitation Robotics and Mechatronics)

Abstract

Students becoming a physical therapist (PT) or an occupational therapist (OT) cannot have enough rehabilitation experience with actual patients before the clinical training. For this reason, we have developed Knee Joint Robot simulating patients' troubles for students to experience rehabilitation for patient's troubles virtually. Furthermore, we have developed a training program using the robot for the students to learn skilled manual training/testing techniques for patients' troubles. This paper presents a control method of KneeRobo in order to improve the simulation accuracy of involuntary movements during knee flexion and extension. The simulation accuracy of KneeRobo was verified with three dimensional motion measurement system in the experiment compared to the previous method.