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Design of a Three-Axis Force Sensor for Wrist Bending-Exercise Rehabilitation Robot

손목굽힘운동 재활로봇을 위한 3축 힘센서 설계

  • Kim, Gab-Soon (Department of Control & Instrumentation Engineering, ERI, Gyeongsang National Unversity)
  • 김갑순 (경상대학교 제어계측공학과)
  • Received : 2012.11.26
  • Accepted : 2013.01.15
  • Published : 2013.03.31
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Abstract

Most serious stroke patients have the paralysis of their wrists, and can't use of their hands freely. But their wrists can be recovered by rehabilitation exercise. Recently, professional rehabilitation therapeutists exercise the wrists of stroke patients in hospital. But the wrists of stroke patients have not rehabilitated, because the therapeutists are much less than stroke patients in number. Therefore, the wrist bending-exercise rehabilitation robot that can measure the bending force of the patients' wrists is developed. In this paper, the three-axis force sensor was designed for the wrist bending-exercise rehabilitation robot. As a test results, the interference error of the three-axis force sensor was less than 0.85%. It is thought that the sensor can be used to measure the wrist bending force of the patient.

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