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Mechanical Engineering

Theses/Dissertations

2020

Rehabilitation

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Development And Control Of A 3-Dof Exoskeleton Robot For Forearm And Wrist Rehabilitation, Tanvir Ahmed May 2020

Development And Control Of A 3-Dof Exoskeleton Robot For Forearm And Wrist Rehabilitation, Tanvir Ahmed

Theses and Dissertations

The research conducted under this project directly contributes to the development of a forearm and wrist rehabilitation robot (UWM-FWRR). Upper extremity impairment following stroke, trauma, sports injuries, occupational injuries, spinal cord injuries, and orthopaedic injuries results in significant deficits in hand manipulation and the performance of everyday tasks. Strokes affect nearly 800,000 people in the United States each year. Rehabilitation programs are the main method of promoting functional recovery in individuals with finger impairment. The conventional therapeutic approach requiring a long commitment by both the clinician and the patient. Robotic devices (RDs) are novel and rapidly expanding technologies in hand …

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A Series-Elastic Robot For Back-Pain Rehabilitation, Elhussein Shata Jan 2020

A Series-Elastic Robot For Back-Pain Rehabilitation, Elhussein Shata

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Robotics research has been broadly expanding into various fields during the past decades. It is widely spread and best known for solving many technical necessities in different fields. With the rise of the industrial revolution, it upgraded many factories to use industrial robots to prevent the human operator from dangerous and hazardous tasks. The rapid development of application fields and their complexity have inspired researchers in the robotics community to find innovative solutions to meet the new desired requirements of the field. Currently, the creation of new needs outside the traditional industrial robots are demanding robots to attend to the …

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