Medical Robots
FUM-Exoskeleton
Rehabilitation is increasingly benefiting from developments in medical robotics and bio-mechatronics. The growing demand for rehabilitation, mostly due to the rising number of accident injuries and population ageing, also contributes to the need for more optimized treatment methods. To this end, exoskeletons which are wearable robots are designed to enable spinal cord injury (SCI) patients to walk and to improve the treatment process. Robots can equip physiotherapists with detailed data regarding the rate of improvement, and this quantitative feedback will motivate the patient and help the physiotherapist to determine the most effective treatment.
This project aims to manufacture a user-friendly robot which can assist patients according to the degree of their movement inability so as to maximize its assistive functions. In physical therapy, it is crucial to determine the right level of needed assistance for the patient since over-helping will prevent them from trying to move on their own. As such, the objective of FUM-Exoskeleton is to advance exoskeletons to become more personalized. Therefore, once completed, FUM-Exoskeleton will be an effective therapeutic robot to be used for the treatment of all paraplegic patients.
- 12 degree of freedom (DoF), 4 active and 8passive
- Range of 0 to 100 percent of required movement force
- EMG based
- Gait analyzer
- Plantar pressure analyzer
- 28 kg weight