Development of a sEMG-Controlled Portable Exoskeleton System for Home-based Upper Limb Rehabilitation

He Li1; Shuxiang Guo1,2; Hanze Wang1; Ruijie He1; Bin Wang3; Mingchao Ding3

10.1109/ICMA61710.2024.10633043

2024-08-07

2152-7431

979-8-3503-8808-4

2024 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA)

4-7 Aug. 2024

Tianjin, China

As the aging population increases, the number of patients with upper limb hemiplegia is also increasing year by year. The robot-assisted elbow rehabilitation in improving upper limb function abilities in sub-acute hemiplegic patients is promising. In this paper, a surface electromyography (sEMG)-controlled portable robotic system for home-based upper limb rehabilitation is designed. According to the structural parameters of human body, a gear-driven wearable upper limb exoskeleton is designed and analyzed. The sEMG signal is adopted as the control signal to realize the natural and smooth human–robot interaction. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed system, the passive training experiment and the sEMG-based bilateral training experiment are carried out respectively, which also shows the feasibility of the proposed rehabilitation system in assisting the movements of the affected upper limb.

其他

1.The Aerospace Center Hospital, School of Life Science and the Key Laboratory of Convergence Medical Engineering System and Healthcare Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
2.The Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
3.The Department of Peripheral Vascular Intervention, Aerospace Center Hospital, School of Life Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China

He Li,Shuxiang Guo,Hanze Wang,et al. Development of a sEMG-Controlled Portable Exoskeleton System for Home-based Upper Limb Rehabilitation[C],2024.