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creators_name: Krishnan, S.
creators_name: Krishna, A.
creators_name: Nordin, A.
creators_name: Amirtham, V.
creators_name: Rani, A.M.A.
creators_name: Rao, T.V.V.L.N.
title: Design and Fabrication of a Parallel Mechanism for Foot/Ankle Rehabilitation Therapy
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keywords: Biomimetics; Machine design; Mechanisms; Muscle; Pneumatic actuators; Pneumatic control; Pneumatic equipment; Robots, Ankle rehabilitation robot; Ankle rehabilitation robots; Intermediate complexity; Intermediate complexity device; Low-costs; Parallel mechanisms; Pneumatic muscle actuator; Pneumatic muscle actuators; Rehabilitation devices; Rehabilitation therapy, Manipulators
note: cited By 4; Conference of 2nd Regional Conference on Mechanical and Marine Engineering, ReMME 2018 ; Conference Date: 7 November 2018 Through 9 November 2018; Conference Code:235599
abstract: This paper presents the development of a low-cost and mobile parallel manipulator for treatment of ankle sprain rehabilitation. The manipulator is called Ankle Rehab Robot (ARR) which has bio-inspired design devised after careful studies of improvement opportunities in the existing ankle rehabilitation devices. Ankle Rehab Robot employs lightweight but powerful pneumatic muscle actuators (PMA) which imitates skeletal muscle in actuation. Some of the key existing sprained ankle rehab robots/prototypes (Intermediate Complexity Devices) was carefully studied and reviewed in order to find the limitations or improvement opportunities. The research approach has been conversed in brief and the ARR design has been described and analysed. Actuator and prototype testing were conducted to obtain specification data of the proposed Ankle Rehab Robot (ARR). For evaluation of mobility and economics, some of the data collected were used for comparison between some of the key (reviewed) existing ankle rehabilitation devices and the ARR Manipulator. From the results attained, target of the research was successfully met. Future works and refinements have been discoursed to improvise the existing Ankle Rehab Robot (ARR). © 2020, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
date: 2020
publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
official_url: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85077872743&doi=10.1007%2f978-981-15-0002-2_15&partnerID=40&md5=e28948401ecab622fc4b0ee4b46d1d76
id_number: 10.1007/978-981-15-0002-2₁₅
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publication: Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering
pagerange: 133-141
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 9789811500015
issn: 21954356
citation:   Krishnan, S. and Krishna, A. and Nordin, A. and Amirtham, V. and Rani, A.M.A. and Rao, T.V.V.L.N.  (2020) Design and Fabrication of a Parallel Mechanism for Foot/Ankle Rehabilitation Therapy.  Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering.  pp. 133-141.  ISSN 21954356