Traditional physical therapy for upper-limb post- stroke hemiparetic patients often fails to reach the maximum potential for recovery and is unable to provide a complete, quantitative assessment of a patient’s progress. Through the use of robotics the team aimed to create a device free of these faults which would provide a holistic physical therapy solution. The sleeve achieves exomuscular actuation through Bowden cables linked to DC motors housed remotely and is able to flex and extend the fingers and elbow and control pronation and supination of the wrist. Through a sensor array located throughout, a feedback system is able to collect quantitative data on joint angles, fingertip forces, and control all degrees of freedom utilizing this data and several on-board processors.

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Creator

• Forrest, Timothy Metter
• Im, Hosung
• Mak, Anselm Joey
• Adhikari, Ritesh
• Cross, Michael N
• Klein, Jason E
• Ochoa-Canizares, Julieth

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-041514-133316

Advisor

• Onal, Cagdas
• Fischer, Gregory S.
• Clancy, Edward A.

Year

• 2014

Date created

• 2014-04-15

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering
• Electrical & Computer Engineering
• Robotics Engineering
• Interdisciplinary

Rights statement

• In Copyright