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Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

DOI

10.3906/elk-1007-585

Abstract

This paper proposes a multi-lateral shared control concept for robot assisted rehabilitation. In particular, a dual-user force-feedback teleoperation control architecture is implemented on a forearm-wrist rehabilitation system consisting of two kinematically dissimilar robotic devices. The multi-lateral rehabilitation system allows for patients to train with on-line virtual dynamic tasks in collaboration with a therapist. Different control authority can be assigned to each agent so that therapists can guide or evaluate movements of patients, or share the control with them. The collaboration is implemented using a dual-user force-feedback teleoperation control architecture, in which a dominance factor determines the authority of each agent in commanding the virtual task. The effectiveness of the controller and regulation of the dominance for each agent is experimentally verified.

Keywords

Robot-assisted rehabilitation, physical therapy for forearm and wrist, multi-lateral control architecture, wrist exoskeleton

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