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Preliminary feasibility study of the H-Man planar robot for quantitative motor assessment | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore

Preliminary feasibility study of the H-Man planar robot for quantitative motor assessment


Abstract:

Current robotic rehabilitation devices have a high cost-to-benefit ratio, which prevents their large scale adoption by the clinical rehabilitation community. This paper f...Show More

Abstract:

Current robotic rehabilitation devices have a high cost-to-benefit ratio, which prevents their large scale adoption by the clinical rehabilitation community. This paper first presents H-Man, a low cost planar robot, as a quantitative assessment and training tool. This is followed by a preliminary study to investigate baseline performance measures for motor assessment during reaching tasks as a step toward replacing conventional ordinal scales with continuous quantitative scales. Thirteen healthy and one participant with upper limb motor impairment participated in the study and performed reaching tasks with their dominant and non-dominant hands in three directions. The results from healthy subjects indicate no significant difference between different directions for both limbs and also between corresponding directions of dominant and non-dominant limbs (p > 0.05, all cases). However, differences in measures can be observed for the impaired subject.
Date of Conference: 28 September 2015 - 02 October 2015
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 17 December 2015
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Conference Location: Hamburg, Germany

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