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A haptic display for robotic rehabilitation of stroke

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dc.creator Natarajan, Pradeep
dc.creator Liu, Wen
dc.creator Oechslin, Josh
dc.creator Agah, Arvin
dc.date 2006-07
dc.date 2006-11-13T01:15:26Z
dc.date 2006-11-13T01:15:26Z
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-18T11:38:44Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-18T11:38:44Z
dc.identifier Proceedings of the International Symposium on Robotics and Automation, Budapest, Hungary, July 24-26, 2006.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1808/1112
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/27465
dc.description The effects of stroke are debilitating on the American population. Past studies of robot-aided motor training for survivors have proven to be effective in upper limb motor recovery. However, survivors also suffer from loss or impairment of sensation. Sensory impairment is an important predictor for motor recovery of stroke survivors. Studies have suggested that sensory inputs during robot-aided motor training might be critical for the creation and promotion of cortical reconstruction due to brain plasticity during post-stroke recovery. This paper presents a new haptic display for the handle of the InMotion2 robot in order to enhance cutaneous sensory inputs for stroke survivors during hand motion. The sensory enhancement is realized through pins attached to servomotors mounted inside the robot handle that vibrate and contact the middle and index fingers, the palm, and the thumb during motor training. Each servomotor is independently controlled using a computer via parallel port with a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) board as the hardware interface.
dc.description This project is partially supported by research grants from NIH (NS043331) and NSF (BES-0302466).
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dc.language en_US
dc.publisher TSI Press, San Antonio, TX, USA
dc.rights openAccess
dc.subject Stroke rehabilitation
dc.subject Haptic display
dc.subject Rehabilitation robots
dc.title A haptic display for robotic rehabilitation of stroke
dc.type Article


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