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Evaluation of Plantarflexion Torque of the Ankle-Foot Orthosis Using the Artificial Pneumatic Muscle  

Kim, Kyung (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chonbuk Univ.)
Kwon, Tae-Kyu (Devision of Biomedical Engineering, Chonbuk Univ.)
Kang, Seung-Rok (Department of healthcare Engineering, Chonbuk Univ.)
Piao, Yong-Jun (Chonbuk National University Automobile-parts & Mold Technology Innovation Center)
Jeong, Gu-Young (Center for Healthcare Technology Development, Chonbuk Univ.)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering / v.27, no.6, 2010 , pp. 82-89 More about this Journal
Abstract
Ankle-foot orthosis with an artificial pneumatic muscle which is intended for the assistance of plantarfelxion torque was developed. In this study, power pattern of the device in the various pneumatics and the effectiveness of the system were investigated. The pneumatic power was provided by ankle-foot orthosis controlled by user‘s physiological signal, that is, muscular stiffness in soleus muscle. This pneumatic power can assist plantarflexion torque of ankle joint. The subjects performed maximal voluntary isokinetic plantarflexion motion on a biodexdynamometer in different pneumatics, and they completed three conditions: 1) without wearing the orthosis, 2) wearing the orthosis with artificial muscles turned off, 3) wearing the orthosis activated under muscular stiffness control. Through these experiments, we confirmed the effectiveness of the orthosis and muscular stiffness control using the analyzing isokinetic plantarflexion torque. The experimental results showed that isokinetic torques of plantarflexion motion of the ankle joints gradually increased in incremental pneumatic. The effectiveness of the orthosis was -7.26% and the effectiveness of the muscular stiffness control was 17.83% in normalized isokinetic plantarflexion torque. Subjects generated the less isokinetic torques of the ankle joints in wearing the orthosis with artificial muscles turned off, but isokinetic torques were appropriately reinforced in condition of wearing the orthosis activated under muscular stiffness control(17.83%) compared to wearing the orthosis(-7.26%). Therefore, we respect that developed powered orthosis is applied in the elderly that has weak muscular power as the rehabilitation equipment.
Keywords
Ankle-Foot Orthosis; Performance Evaluation; Soleus Muscle; Muscular Stiffness Control;
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