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COBEM 2023
27th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering
The Review of Research on Wrist Rehabilitation Robots
Submission Author:
Gabriella Faina Garcia , MG
Co-Authors:
Gabriella Faina Garcia, Rogério Sales Gonçalves
Presenter: Rogério Sales Gonçalves
doi://10.26678/ABCM.COBEM2023.COB2023-1904
Abstract
Stroke is the main cause of disability among adults worldwide, resulting in high numbers of individuals with motor and cognitive deficits. The main consequence of this brain injury is the loss or weakness of human body movements, especially the upper limbs. Thus, the use of robotic devices can help in the rehabilitation process by providing improvements in motor and functional performance and providing quantitative evaluations of movement. One of the applications of robotics in medicine is the development of devices to assist in the rehabilitation of the human wrist. The human wrist is a joint with three degrees of freedom that connects the hand to the forearm, developing radial-ulnar deviation, flexion-extension, and pronation-supination movements. This review paper aims to report the leading research on robotic devices to aid the wrist rehabilitation process. Another goal is to classify the surveyed devices according to the number of degrees of freedom, the movements associated with the wrist, the type of actuator, the control method, feedback signal and experimental evaluation. The method consists of researching the main articles at Scopus with "wrist rehabilitation robot" as keywords since 2012. Results showed a variety of wrist rehabilitation devices that could be classified and presented as a table to ease the reader's analysis. The table contains all the essential attributes necessary to develop wrist devices for rehabilitation. This paper presents a review of the main robotic devices for wrist rehabilitation found in the literature in the last few years. The primary highlight is the classification of each of these robotic devices according to its main attributes and features. In addition, it is a way for health professionals, such as physiotherapists and physicians, to apply this scientific knowledge to patients who are victims of stroke and have lesions in the wrist region. Finally, it serves as a guide for wrist rehabilitation researchers who wish to compare different robotic manipulators based on many aspects and characteristics and provides an outlook on their future development direction. Another important aspect reported in the article is the importance of serious games in conjunction with a simple wrist rehabilitation device. These ideas will be implemented in a new robotic wrist rehabilitation device made by the Laboratory of Automation and Robotics at UFU (Federal University of Uberlândia).
Keywords
wrist, Rehabilitation, Robotics, review, classification
