Robotic Hand Rehabilitation System

This research has been conducted by Biomedical Mechatronics Laboratory at Northeastern University under the supervision of Professor Constantinos Mavroidis.

A hand rehabilitation system that combines robotics and interactive gaming to facilitate repetitive performance of task specific exercises for patients recovering from neurological motor deficits. A two degree of freedom robotic interface allows coordinated motions of the forearm and the hand (pronation/supination and grasp/release, respectively). It is driven by two novel hydraulic actuators which are based on the principles of electro-rheological fluid technology. A virtual reality environment (maze game) was developed in which the robot applies force fields to the user as the user navigates the environment, forming a haptic interface between the patient and the game.

Websites:
http://www.robots.neu.edu/
http://www1.coe.neu.edu/~mavro/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Stroke Rehabilitation
• Hand Rehabilitation
• Rehabilitation Robotics