Bureau Maxime, Keller Thierry, Perry Joel, Velik Rosemarie, Veneman Jan F
Health Division – Health Technologies Unit, Tecnalia Research and Innovation, Paseo Mikeletegi 1, 20009 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.
IEEE Int Conf Rehabil Robot. 2011;2011:5975350. doi: 10.1109/ICORR.2011.5975350.
In robotic rehabilitation, the way of attaching the robotic device to the users' limb constitutes a crucial element of product quality, particularly for assuring good fitting, comfort, accuracy, usability, and safety. In this article, we present a new technological concept - 'Variable Stiffness Structure' - allowing for an improvement of these aspects in the 'robotic device to limb' - connection by offering a compound of materials that are together able to switch from a flexible textile-like state to a more rigid state by applying negative pressure. The paper describes the concept and the basic behaviour of the material, based on experiments.
在机器人康复领域，将机器人设备连接到用户肢体的方式是产品质量的关键要素，特别是对于确保良好的贴合性、舒适性、准确性、可用性和安全性而言。在本文中，我们提出了一种新的技术概念——“可变刚度结构”，通过提供一种材料组合，使其能够通过施加负压从类似柔性织物的状态转变为更刚性的状态，从而改善“机器人设备与肢体”连接中的这些方面。本文基于实验描述了该材料的概念和基本特性。
