A new silver robot platform for the elderly and the handicapped: Spiderbot-posture balancing and muscle strengthening exercises

Aslam Pervez; Hossein S. Farahani; Seung-Gweon Jeong; Hyunho Kim; Jeha Ryu

doi:10.1117/12.664702

2 May 2006 A new silver robot platform for the elderly and the handicapped: Spiderbot^TM-posture balancing and muscle strengthening exercises

Aslam Pervez, Hossein S. Farahani, Seung-Gweon Jeong, Hyunho Kim, Jeha Ryu

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Proceedings Volume 6042, ICMIT 2005: Control Systems and Robotics; 60423D (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.664702
Event: ICMIT 2005: Merchatronics, MEMS, and Smart Materials, 2005, Chongqing, China

Abstract

By using a new type of silver robot called SpiderBot^TM, posture balancing and muscle strengthening exercises were presented. Unlike mobile robots on a floor, SpiderBot^TM is conceptualized to generate full mobility in a room and to have higher payload while generating six degrees-of-freedom for assisting daily lives of the elderly and the handicapped. A preliminary prototype of SpiderBot^TM has been constructed by using incompletely restrained wire mechanism and simple control algorithms were implemented for two types of exercises for elderly people's health improvement. One is a posture balancing exercise that prevents from falling to any directions. And the other is muscle strengthening exercise that uses the SpiderBot^TM as a weight lifting mechanism. Preliminary experimental results show that the proposed new silver robot platform is used for such exercises.

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Aslam Pervez, Hossein S. Farahani, Seung-Gweon Jeong, Hyunho Kim, and Jeha Ryu "A new silver robot platform for the elderly and the handicapped: Spiderbot^TM-posture balancing and muscle strengthening exercises", Proc. SPIE 6042, ICMIT 2005: Control Systems and Robotics, 60423D (2 May 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.664702

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