Development of a passive Rehabilitation Robot for the wrist joint through the implementation of an Arduino UNO microcontroller
Published 2016-12-30
Keywords
- Rehabilitation of wrist joint,
- design,
- robotics,
- arduino microcontroller,
- recordering device and executor
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Abstract
In this paper, we develop a functional robotic prototype based on an Arduino UNO R3 microcontroller to perform rehabilitation exercises for wrist joint. The device can be used to assist the physiatrist to rehabilitate the tendinitis, synovitis, rheumatoid arthritis and for pre-operative and post-operative therapy of the wrist joint. During the design stage of the functional prototype, we take advantages of the industrial design process methodology from a concurrent engineering approach. We perform an anthropometric analysis of the Venezuelan population in order to establish the dimensions and angles of movements for the wrist joint. We develop conceptual designs by means of CAD taking into account different forms, geometries and materials of the components of the rehabilitation device. After that, principal stress and safety factors of each design concept are analysed through the use of CAE software based on the finite element method.In addition, we put forward a graphical user interface (GUI) for measuring, recording, and executing the different movements required during the rehabilitation therapy. Finally, we built an actual prototype able to help the rehabilitation of the wrist joint allowing the combination of dorsal-palmar flexion and ulnar-radial movements to recover the joint function of various pathologies for Venezuelan population.
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