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Robotic finger rehabilitation system for stroke patient using surface EMG armband


Abstract:

Several technological solutions have ben recently proposed for fingers rehabilitation in patients who were affected by a stroke, in particular for those who cannot genera...Show More

Abstract:

Several technological solutions have ben recently proposed for fingers rehabilitation in patients who were affected by a stroke, in particular for those who cannot generate the finger force but with preserved sEMG signals. In fact, a very promising approach uses a robot rehabilitation system controlled through sEMG signals. However, this system has two main problems: 1) the placement of electrodes is made manually and this could bring to a non-optimal detection of signals; 2) the cost of treatments is very high, mainly due to the usage of single-use, dispodsable electrodes. Our proposal is to use a robot rehabilitation system with a low-cost armband instead of standard electrodes. The armband has 8 sEMG sensors and a 9-DoF inertial sensor, it has electrically safe setup with low voltage battery and Bluetooth protocol. Moreover it is a very low cost and reusable equipment. The validity of the proposal was confirmed through experiments.
Date of Conference: 23-26 October 2016
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 22 December 2016
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Conference Location: Florence, Italy

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