Interactive Design and Development of Real Arm Movements for Application in Rehabilitation

[摘要] An interactive real arm movements for application in rehabilitation is designed and developed. The aim is to encourage hand paralysis patients performing their physical therapy by introducing games application in replacing conventional hand therapy module and methods. In this project, the accelerometer is used for tracking the orientation of the arm. As the arm moves, the values from x, y and z axis from the accelerometer changes and are being read by the Analog Inputs of the Arduino Board. After being read by the Analog Inputs of the Arduino Board, the 3D model moves as well. Solidworks software was used to modeled the hand in which the data is then transferred to Matlab/Simulink using SimMechanicalLink from Mathworks. Lastly, the sensor glove was programmed to work as a controller of games application in hand rehabilitation thus makes it an enjoyable therapy process.

[发布机构] Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi, MARA, Shah Alam; 40450, Malaysia^1

[效力级别] 工业技术 [学科分类] 工业工程学

[关键词] Analog inputs;Arm movements;Hand rehabilitation;Hand therapy;Interactive design;MATLAB /simulink;Sensor gloves;Solidworks software