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MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 336, 2021
2020 2nd International Conference on Computer Science Communication and Network Security (CSCNS2020)
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Article Number | 02016 | |
Number of page(s) | 8 | |
Section | Industrial Design and Engineering Technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/202133602016 | |
Published online | 15 February 2021 |
A gravity balancing assistant arm design in 3-D for rehabilitation of stroke patients
1 Mechanics Institute, Shanghai dianji university, Shanghai 201306 P. R. China
2 School of design and art, Shanghai dianji university, Shanghai 201306 P. R. China
3 School of Business, Shanghai Dianji University, Shanghai 201306 P. R. China
4 School of department of pharmaceutical technology, shanghai medical school, Shanghai, 201306 P. R. China
* Corresponding author: N1924241613@163.com
A gravity balancing assistant arm design in 3-D is a mechanical mechanism consisted of springs, rigid rods, joints and sliders, which can be modified to the geometry and inertia of the arm of stroke patients. This mechanism is designed without any controllers and motors, based solely on mechanical principles, to achieve a relative balance of gravitational potential energy and elastic potential energy, thereby reducing the burden on the arm of a stroke patient to facilitate rehabilitation. To achieve this function, first, the center of gravity of the patient’s arm will be positioned, and then the mounting position of the spring on the assistant arm will be determined. In this paper, the following objectives will be achieved: (i) the calculation of the gravitational potential energy and the elastic potential energy in the mechanism (ii) the simplification of the potential energy equation and the elimination of the coefficient of the items related to the angle. (iii) The comparison between 2-D and 3-D cases of the mechanism. (iv) The motion process of simulating the mechanism using MATLAB (v) Using MATLAB to create the energy plots (vi) Using SolidWorks to construct the prototype of the mechanism (vii) Describe the practical application and future extensions of this mechanism.
Key words: Gravity balancing / Assistant arm / 3-D / Mechanical mechanism
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2021
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