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Conceptual design for robot-aided ankle rehabilitation device
Muhammad Nazrin Shah Shahrol Aman1, Shafriza Nisha Basah2, Wan Khairunzam Wan Ahmad3, Shahriman Abu Bakar4.
Ankle injury is one of physical injury that can happen whether in sports or in domestic
accidents. The injury can take from weeks to months to recover and requires physiotherapy
treatment for effective recovery. Currently, there are established treatments for ankle
rehabilitation in hospital such as endurance training and range-of-motion training.
However, the success of rehabilitation for ankle injury directly depends on physiotherapy
administered by experts. This conventional therapy treatment requires patients to
frequently visit to hospital which is tedious and costly. To solve this, researchers have
introduced a number of robot-aided ankle rehabilitation devices which has been
developed in the last decade. However, those devices are bulky and do not designed for
portability and configurability – which is an important feature for patients undergoing
rehabilitation at home. In this paper, we proposed a concept based on robot-aided ankle
rehabilitation device to assist patients undergo rehabilitation procedures. We focused on
all patients’ need especially based on important features such as portability and
configurability of the device. Standard design process were followed including concept
generation and concept selection according to all relevant criteria using Morphological
Charts and Pugh Method. A Pulley Driven Cable Based Parallel Mechanism robot-aided
ankle rehabilitation device has been selected based on selections from 5 different
concept design generated. We show that a design based on parallel mechanisms should
provide the needed portability and configurability. This result provides an insight for a
portable and configurable robot-aided ankle rehabilitation device.
Affiliation:
- Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia
- Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia
- Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia
- Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia
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