Pennycott Andrew, Wyss Dario, Vallery Heike, Riener Robert
Sensory-Motor Systems Lab, ETH Z¨urich, Switzerland.
IEEE Int Conf Rehabil Robot. 2011;2011:5975415. doi: 10.1109/ICORR.2011.5975415.
A robot-driven gait orthosis which allows balance training during gait would further enhance the capabilities of robotic treadmill training in gait rehabilitation. In this paper, additional mass is attached to walking able-bodied subjects to simulate the effects of additional inertia and body weight support on the lateral balance task. The combination of additional inertia and body weight support led to reduced step widths, suggesting a stabilising effect which may reduce the challenge of the lateral balance task.
一种由机器人驱动的步态矫形器，能够在步态过程中进行平衡训练，这将进一步提升机器人跑步机训练在步态康复中的能力。在本文中，在能够行走的健全受试者身上附加额外质量，以模拟额外惯性和体重支撑对横向平衡任务的影响。额外惯性和体重支撑的组合导致步幅宽度减小，表明存在一种稳定作用，这可能会降低横向平衡任务的挑战性。
