VR･AR技術を用いた上肢リハビリテーションロボットの開発と評価

抄録

Upper limbs are often deeply involved in activities of daily living. Therefore, hemiplegic patients need to repeat rehabilitation. We have developed a training robot using Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and monitors with the aim of reducing the burden on the therapist and encouraging voluntary rehabilitation. We evaluated the safety and satisfaction of the rehabilitation. From the results, it was found that all training can be safely performed except for some people. We also found that training using Virtual Reality was more satisfying than training using Augmented Reality