Hu John, Lim Yi-Je, Ding Ye, Paluska Daniel, Solochek Aaron, Laffery David, Bonato Paolo, Marchessault Ronald
Hstar Technologies Co, Cambridge, MA 02138,USA.
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2011;2011:2073-6. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090384.
Emerging technologies such as rehabilitation robots (RehaBot) for retraining upper and lower limb functions have shown to carry tremendous potential to improve rehabilitation outcomes. Hstar Technologies is developing a revolutionary rehabilitation robot system enhancing healthcare quality for patients with neurological and muscular injuries or functional impairments. The design of RehaBot is a safe and robust system that can be run at a rehabilitation hospital under the direct monitoring and interactive supervision control and at a remote site via telepresence operation control. RehaBot has a wearable robotic structure design like exoskeleton, which employs a unique robotic actuation--Series Elastic Actuator. These electric actuators provide robotic structural compliance, safety, flexibility, and required strength for upper extremity dexterous manipulation rehabilitation training. RehaBot also features a novel non-treadmill paddle platform capable of haptics feedback locomotion rehabilitation training. In this paper, we concern mainly about the motor incomplete patient and rehabilitation applications.
诸如用于上肢和下肢功能再训练的康复机器人（RehaBot）等新兴技术已显示出在改善康复效果方面具有巨大潜力。Hstar Technologies正在开发一种革命性的康复机器人系统，以提高神经和肌肉损伤或功能障碍患者的医疗质量。RehaBot的设计是一个安全且强大的系统，可在康复医院直接监测和交互式监督控制下运行，也可通过远程临场操作控制在远程站点运行。RehaBot具有类似外骨骼的可穿戴机器人结构设计，采用了独特的机器人驱动——串联弹性驱动器。这些电动驱动器为上肢灵巧操作康复训练提供了机器人结构的柔顺性、安全性、灵活性和所需的力量。RehaBot还具有一个新颖的非跑步机桨叶平台，能够进行触觉反馈运动康复训练。在本文中，我们主要关注运动功能不完整的患者和康复应用。
