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Project Description
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The "Rutgers Ankle"
Rehabilitation Interface
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The "Rutgers Ankle"
Haptic Interface
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The "Rutgers Ankle" Rehabilitation Interface is a robotic ankle
rehabilitation device designed for at-home use and Internet-based remote
monitoring by therapists. Its quantitative remote evaluation capabilities
are designed to permit less-frequent visits to the therapist. As a
virtual-reality haptic interface, it allows patients to interact with
motivating virtual environments as they exercise.
The device allows movement in all 3 of
the ankle's degrees of freedom through patients' full range of
motion. It is capable of supplying both low and high forces
in all directions, permitting a large variety of exercises.
Because it interfaces with a computer as a
virtual reality haptic interface, the system acts
as an input/output device to/from virtual environments. For example, patients
can steer a virtual airplane with their feet, feeling resistive forces increase
with speed.
While patients exercise, the system collects force and position data in all of the
ankle's degrees of freedom. These data can be accessed remotely by therapists via
the Internet.
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Virtual reality plane simulation
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