TY - GEN
T1 - Robotic finger rehabilitation system for stroke patient using surface EMG armband
AU - Oboe, Roberto
AU - Tonin, Alessandro
AU - Yu, Koyo
AU - Ohnishi, Kouhei
AU - Turolla, Andrea
PY - 2016/12/21
Y1 - 2016/12/21
N2 - Several technological solutions have ben recently proposed for fingers rehabilitation in patients who were affected by a stroke, in particular for those who cannot generate the finger force but with preserved sEMG signals. In fact, a very promising approach uses a robot rehabilitation system controlled through sEMG signals. However, this system has two main problems: 1) the placement of electrodes is made manually and this could bring to a non-optimal detection of signals; 2) the cost of treatments is very high, mainly due to the usage of single-use, dispodsable electrodes. Our proposal is to use a robot rehabilitation system with a low-cost armband instead of standard electrodes. The armband has 8 sEMG sensors and a 9-DoF inertial sensor, it has electrically safe setup with low voltage battery and Bluetooth protocol. Moreover it is a very low cost and reusable equipment. The validity of the proposal was confirmed through experiments.
AB - Several technological solutions have ben recently proposed for fingers rehabilitation in patients who were affected by a stroke, in particular for those who cannot generate the finger force but with preserved sEMG signals. In fact, a very promising approach uses a robot rehabilitation system controlled through sEMG signals. However, this system has two main problems: 1) the placement of electrodes is made manually and this could bring to a non-optimal detection of signals; 2) the cost of treatments is very high, mainly due to the usage of single-use, dispodsable electrodes. Our proposal is to use a robot rehabilitation system with a low-cost armband instead of standard electrodes. The armband has 8 sEMG sensors and a 9-DoF inertial sensor, it has electrically safe setup with low voltage battery and Bluetooth protocol. Moreover it is a very low cost and reusable equipment. The validity of the proposal was confirmed through experiments.
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U2 - 10.1109/IECON.2016.7793467
DO - 10.1109/IECON.2016.7793467
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85010032069
T3 - IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)
SP - 785
EP - 790
BT - Proceedings of the IECON 2016 - 42nd Annual Conference of the Industrial Electronics Society
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 42nd Conference of the Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2016
Y2 - 24 October 2016 through 27 October 2016
ER -