An Exercise Rehabilitative System for Upper Extremities Aimed at Neurorehabilitation

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K11349
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 59010:Rehabilitation science-related
• Research Institution: University of the Ryukyus
• Principal Investigator: HIGA Hiroki 琉球大学, 工学部, 教授 (60295300)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: hand rehabilitation / assistive technology / biosignals / SVM / LSTM / virtual reality

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To improve quality of lives of persons with neuromuscular diseases, we developed an exercise rehabilitative system that allows users to assist their hand rehabilitation. The system is composed of biosignal-based controllers, a hand orthosis, a PC, and a virtual rehabilitation environment, which has a network communication function that enables user, doctor and medical care professionals to remotely attend rehabilitative activities. Able-bodied subjects participated in the experiments. We experimentally demonstrated that the proposed system operated appropriately.

Free Research Field

生体医工学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究で試作したリハビリ支援システムを用いることにより、健常被験者の生体信号を活用した手指のリハビリの支援を行えることが示された。患者が医師やリハビリ・スタッフらと直接対面できない状況でも、オンライン・マルチプレイが可能なネットワーク通信機能を使用することで遠隔からのリハビリ実施が可能であると考えられる。Withコロナ下での本システムの利用が期待される。