Affiliations: Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
Correspondence:
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Corresponding author: Zhiwei Luo, Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodaimachi Nada-ku, 657-8501, Kobe, Japan. E-mail:[email protected]
Abstract: Upper limbs cooperative movement functions are very
important for us in our everyday life. Due to many kinds of brain diseases,
people usually reduced or even lost their half side of body's motion
activities, which made it difficult to realize cooperative movements between
right and left limbs and in turn greatly reduced their quality of live. In
this research, we developed a novel robot system which integrates with
virtual reality technologies to perform rehabilitation of upper limbs'
cooperative movement functions, such as to realize simultaneous upper limbs'
motions or to cooperatively catch and setting a common object in a 3 D work
space. Three types of rehabilitation movements are designed so that the
subject can train their each arm along as well as cooperative movements in a
game style. The motion trajectories as well as the contact forces with
objects are automatically recorded which can be used to evaluate the
performance of rehabilitation, effectively.
