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The ACT-4D: A novel rehabilitation robot for the quantification of upper limb motor impairments following brain injury.
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PMID:  22275658     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Rehabilitation robots and other controlled diagnostic devices are useful tools to objectively quantify debilitating, post-stroke impairments. The goal of this paper is to describe the design of the ACT-4D rehabilitation robot which can quantify arm impairments during functional movement. The robot can instantly switch between a compliant mode that minimizes impedance of voluntary movement, and a stiff mode that applies controlled position/speed perturbations to the elbow (up to 75 Nm or 450 deg/s at 4500 deg/s(2)). It has a limited range of movement of the shoulder and elbow, which is further reduced when a damper is needed to enhance the positional stiffness of the base robot. In recent experiments, the ACT-4D has been used successfully for the quantification of elbow impairments.
Authors:
A H A Stienen; J G McPherson; A C Schouten; J P A Dewald
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]     Volume:  2011     ISSN:  1945-7901     ISO Abbreviation:  IEEE Int Conf Rehabil Robot     Publication Date:  2011 Jun 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2012-01-25     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  101260913     Medline TA:  IEEE Int Conf Rehabil Robot     Country:  United States    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  1-6     Citation Subset:  IM    
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