title: An advanced rehabilitation robotic system for augmenting healthcare.
abstract: Emerging technologies such as rehabilitation robots (RehaBot) for retraining upper and lower limb functions have shown to carry tremendous potential to improve rehabilitation outcomes. Hstar Technologies is developing a revolutionary rehabilitation robot system enhancing healthcare quality for patients with neurological and muscular injuries or functional impairments. The design of RehaBot is a safe and robust system that can be run at a rehabilitation hospital under the direct monitoring and interactive supervision control and at a remote site via telepresence operation control. RehaBot has a wearable robotic structure design like exoskeleton, which employs a unique robotic actuation--Series Elastic Actuator. These electric actuators provide robotic structural compliance, safety, flexibility, and required strength for upper extremity dexterous manipulation rehabilitation training. RehaBot also features a novel non-treadmill paddle platform capable of haptics feedback locomotion rehabilitation training. In this paper, we concern mainly about the motor incomplete patient and rehabilitation applications.
authors.affiliation: Hstar Technologies Co, Cambridge, MA 02138,USA. jjh@hstartech.com
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Yi-Je
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Ye
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Paluska
authors.forename: Aaron
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Solochek
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Laffery
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bonato
authors.forename: Ronald
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Marchessault
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D006801:Humans; D008328:Man-Machine Systems; D015915:Motion Therapy, Continuous Passive / Q000295:instrumentation*; D026201:Musculoskeletal Manipulations / Q000295:instrumentation*; D009989:Orthotic Devices; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000295:instrumentation*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012371:Robotics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*