The design and control of a 3DOF lower limb rehabilitation robot

Aiming to assist stroke patients who suffer from motor dysfunction after stroke and reduce the stress of physiotherapists, a 3-degree-of-freedom (3DOF) lower limb rehabilitation robot (LLRR) has been developed for the motion recovery in this paper. At first, a simple and flexible structure of LLRR i...

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Published in:Mechatronics (Oxford) 2016-02, Vol.33, p.13-22
Main Authors: Wu, Junpeng, Gao, Jinwu, Song, Rong, Li, Rihui, Li, Yaning, Jiang, Lelun
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptive robust sub-controller
Design engineering
Limbs
Lower limb rehabilitation robot
Mechatronics
Motion recovery
Motor dysfunction
Motors
Passive movement training
Patients
Rehabilitation robots
Strokes
Training
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Summary:Aiming to assist stroke patients who suffer from motor dysfunction after stroke and reduce the stress of physiotherapists, a 3-degree-of-freedom (3DOF) lower limb rehabilitation robot (LLRR) has been developed for the motion recovery in this paper. At first, a simple and flexible structure of LLRR is designed, which involves hip, knee and ankle joints and can also be adjusted to fit for the different heights of patients. Then, for the controller design, control-oriented model of LLRR is studied and validated by both simulation and experiments, including the kinematic model of mechanical system, friction model of rotation joints and motor model of actuators. Based on the proposed models, an adaptive robust sub-controller is synthesized to make each joint track its designed training trajectory, overcome system uncertainties and reject the disturbances from patient. At last, experiments are carried out to validate the proposed LLRR by the passive movement training.
ISSN:0957-4158
1873-4006
DOI:10.1016/j.mechatronics.2015.11.010