Deans' stroke musings: Recent Trends in Lower-Limb Robotic Rehabilitation Orthosis: Control Scheme and Strategy for Pneumatic Muscle Actuated Gait Trainers

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Saturday, May 30, 2020

Recent Trends in Lower-Limb Robotic Rehabilitation Orthosis: Control Scheme and Strategy for Pneumatic Muscle Actuated Gait Trainers

Is 6 years enough time and recent enough for your stroke hospital to know about and implement this? You want to make sure you aren't pushing the envelope on their ability to actually keep up-to-date on stroke research. No pressure on them, please.

Recent Trends in Lower-Limb Robotic Rehabilitation Orthosis: Control Scheme and Strategy for Pneumatic Muscle Actuated Gait Trainers

Mohd Azuwan Mat Dzahir 1,2,* and Shin-ichiroh Yamamoto 1 1 Shibaura Institute of Technology, Department of Bio-Science Engineering, 307 Fukasaku, Minuma-ku, Saitama City, Saitama 337-8570, Japan; E-Mail: yamashin@se.shibaura-it.ac.jp 2 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, UTM Skudai, Johor Bahru 81310, Malaysia
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: nb11503@shibaura-it.ac.jp or azuwan@fkm.utm.my; Tel.: +80-80-4094-8009.
Received: 10 January 2014; in revised form: 17 March 2014 / Accepted: 21 March 2014 / Published: 14 April 2014

Abstract:

It is a general assumption that pneumatic muscle-type actuators will play an important role in the development of an assistive rehabilitation robotics system. In the last decade, the development of a pneumatic muscle actuated lower-limb leg orthosis has been rather slow compared to other types of actuated leg orthoses that use AC motors, DC motors, pneumatic cylinders, linear actuators, series elastic actuators (SEA) and brushless servomotors. However, recent years have shown that the interest in this field has grown exponentially, mainly due to the demand for a more compliant and interactive human-robotics system. This paper presents a survey of existing lower-limb leg orthoses for rehabilitation, which implement pneumatic muscle-type actuators, such as McKibben artificial muscles, rubbertuators, air muscles, pneumatic artificial muscles (PAM) or pneumatic muscle actuators (PMA). It reviews all the currently existing lower-limb rehabilitation orthosis systems in terms of comparison and evaluation of the design, as well as the control scheme and strategy, with the aim of clarifying the current and on-going research in the lower-limb robotic rehabilitation field.