Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content

Hand Rehabilitation Modes Combining Exoskeleton-Assisted Training with Tactile Feedback for Hemiplegia Patients: A Preliminary Study

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

3 Scopus citations

Abstract

Within the field of rehabilitation for people with hemiplegia, this paper presents a novel training system for hand function rehabilitation. This training system mainly includes a hand rehabilitation exoskeleton, tactile feedback devices and a virtual reality scene. Tactile feedback devices are designed as electric stimulation slip feedback actuator and pneumatic contact force feedback actuator respectively. The virtual reality scene is a human-computer interaction interface built by Unity 3D. Three rehabilitation training modes including a contact force enhanced rehabilitation mode, a mirror therapy mode and an active rehabilitation mode are proposed to provide different feedback stimulation for patients at different rehabilitation stages to obtain better rehabilitation training effect. Verification experiments were conducted to preliminarily show the feasibility of those modes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Robotics and Applications - 15th International Conference, ICIRA 2022, Proceedings
EditorsHonghai Liu, Weihong Ren, Zhouping Yin, Lianqing Liu, Li Jiang, Guoying Gu, Xinyu Wu
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages661-669
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783031138348
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event15th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2022 - Harbin, China
Duration: 1 Aug 20223 Aug 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13457 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference15th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2022
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHarbin
Period1/08/223/08/22

Keywords

  • Hand function rehabilitation
  • Mirror therapy
  • Tactile feedback
  • Virtual reality

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Hand Rehabilitation Modes Combining Exoskeleton-Assisted Training with Tactile Feedback for Hemiplegia Patients: A Preliminary Study'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this