Mechatronic Design of a Robot for Upper Limb Rehabilitation at Home

摘要

This paper addresses the design of a novel bionic robotic device for upper limb rehabilitation tasks at home.The main goal of the design process has been to obtain a rehabilitation device,which can be easily portable and can be managed remotely by a professional therapist.This allows to treat people also in regions that are not easily reachable with a significant cost reduction.Other potential benefits can be envisaged,for instance,in the possibility to keep social distancing while allowing rehabilitation treatments even during a pandemic spread.Specific attention has been devoted to design the main mechatronic components by developing specific kinematics and dynamics models.The design process includes the implementation of a specific control hardware and software.Preliminary experimental tests are reported to show the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed design solution.