Mechatronic active rehabilitation assistance system for stroke or orthopedic patients

APPLICATION PURPOSE

Physical fitness restoration after stroke or orthopedic diseases is a long-term process, which requires regular, painstaking exercises under supervision of a physiotherapist, and even with physiotherapist.s assistance in the first phase.

The RENUS-1 system provides capability of performing complex, controlled spatial movements of patient.s upper limb for rehabilitation of patients with paralysis due to stroke or orthopedic condition. The system is a physiotherapist-assisting system, which helps in performing painstaking work requiring significant physical force and many repetitions of a single exercise.

THE SYSTEM CONSISTS OF:

• a robot, which performs spatial movement
• a control system
• a computer-assisted programming and exercise supervision system.

THE SYSTEM OPERATES IN THE FOLLOWING MODES:

• learning, when the movement path, required for the exercise, is programmed by the physiotherapist
• passive, when the robot moves the patient.s limb along the movement path programmed by the physiotherapist
• active, when the patients attempts to move the robot.s arm along the trajectory shown on a display as a line of movement to be made and cursor, showing current robotic arm position.

SYSTEM FEATURES:

• Simple design
• Mobility
• Safety
• Performing of exercises requiring complex spatial programmed movement path
• Continuous control movement parameter and forces and momentums between patient.s limb and robot
• Tracking and objective assessment of patient.s progress based on information collected
• Physiotherapist can supervise many exercising patients at a time

Power supply: 230V AC, 500VA power consumption.

The mechatronic system of rehabilitation support was produced in the Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP in Warsaw as a result of execution of a research task in the PW-004/ITE/02/2004 project covered with the PW-004 Multiyear Program that is coordinated by Institute of Operating Technology PIB in Radom.

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Contact	person:	Wojciech Klimasara
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	phone:	(+48) 022 8740 303
	fax:	(+48) 022 8740 204