ARMin: a robot for patient-cooperative arm therapy. Export

@article{citeulike:2859849, abstract = {Task-oriented, repetitive and intensive arm training can enhance arm rehabilitation in patients with paralyzed upper extremities due to lesions of the central nervous system. There is evidence that the training duration is a key factor for the therapy progress. Robot-supported therapy can improve the rehabilitation allowing more intensive training. This paper presents the kinematics, the control and the therapy modes of the arm therapy robot ARMin. It is a haptic display with semi-exoskeleton kinematics with four active and two passive degrees of freedom. Equipped with position, force and torque sensors the device can deliver patient-cooperative arm therapy taking into account the activity of the patient and supporting him/her only as much as needed. The haptic display is combined with an audiovisual display that is used to present the movement and the movement task to the patient. It is assumed that the patient-cooperative therapy approach combined with a multimodal display can increase the patient's motivation and activity and, therefore, the therapeutic progress.}, address = {Sensory-Motor Systems Laboratory, ETH Z\"{u}rich, TAN E, Tannenstrasse 1, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland. nef@mavt.ethz.ch}, author = {Nef, T. and Mihelj, M. and Riener, R.}, citeulike-article-id = {2859849}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11517-007-0226-6}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17674069}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=17674069}, doi = {10.1007/s11517-007-0226-6}, issn = {0140-0118}, journal = {Medical \& biological engineering \& computing}, keywords = {armin, cooperative\_control, rehabilitation\_robotics}, month = {September}, number = {9}, pages = {887--900}, posted-at = {2008-07-11 12:05:45}, priority = {2}, title = {ARMin: a robot for patient-cooperative arm therapy.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11517-007-0226-6}, volume = {45}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2859849 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2859849 N2 - Task-oriented, repetitive and intensive arm training can enhance arm rehabilitation in patients with paralyzed upper extremities due to lesions of the central nervous system. There is evidence that the training duration is a key factor for the therapy progress. Robot-supported therapy can improve the rehabilitation allowing more intensive training. This paper presents the kinematics, the control and the therapy modes of the arm therapy robot ARMin. It is a haptic display with semi-exoskeleton kinematics with four active and two passive degrees of freedom. Equipped with position, force and torque sensors the device can deliver patient-cooperative arm therapy taking into account the activity of the patient and supporting him/her only as much as needed. The haptic display is combined with an audiovisual display that is used to present the movement and the movement task to the patient. It is assumed that the patient-cooperative therapy approach combined with a multimodal display can increase the patient's motivation and activity and, therefore, the therapeutic progress. IS - 9 JF - Medical & biological engineering & computing SN - 0140-0118 AD - Sensory-Motor Systems Laboratory, ETH Zürich, TAN E, Tannenstrasse 1, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland. nef@mavt.ethz.ch EP - 900 TI - ARMin: a robot for patient-cooperative arm therapy. VL - 45 SP - 887 KW - armin KW - cooperative_control KW - rehabilitation_robotics AU - Nef, T AU - Mihelj, M AU - Riener, R PY - 2007/09// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11517-007-0226-6 ER -