Soft Robots for Healthcare Applications: Design, modelling, and control
Soft Robots for Healthcare Applications: Design, modelling, and control
by Shane Xie, Mingming Zhang and Wei Meng
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2017 Cloth: 978-1-78561-311-1 | eISBN: 978-1-78561-312-8 (all) Library of Congress Classification R857.R63X54 2017 Dewey Decimal Classification 610.28
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Robot-assisted healthcare offers benefits for repetitive, intensive and task specific training compared to traditional manual manipulation performed by physiotherapists. However, a majority of existing rehabilitation devices use rigid actuators such as electric motors or hydraulic cylinders which cannot guarantee the safety of patients; novel soft robots combining soft and compliant actuators with stiff skeletons offer a better alternative. This book focuses on the development of these soft robotics for rehabilitation purposes.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: State of the art
Chapter 3: Concept and modelling of a soft rehabilitation actuator: the Peano muscle
Chapter 4: Design of the reactive Peano muscle
Chapter 5: Soft wrist rehabilitation robot
Chapter 6: Development of a soft ankle rehabilitation robot
Chapter 7: Control of a soft ankle rehabilitation robot
Chapter 8: Design of a GAit Rehabilitation EXoskeleton
Chapter 9: Modelling and control strategies development of GAREX