SEDS research seminar “Affordable Robot Assisted Gait Rehabilitation for Stroke Survivors”

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When:
September 29, 2021 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
2021-09-29T14:00:00+06:00
2021-09-29T15:00:00+06:00

Speaker: Prashant Jamwal, Associate professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, SEDS NU

Date: September 29, Wednesday

Time: 14:00-15:00

Language: English

Abstract for the project:

Disabilities due to neurological disorders (stroke and incomplete spinal cord injuries) are ever increasing and their treatment remains a severe burden on the health care system around the world. Kazakhstan is no exception, and the mortality rate here is one of the highest in the world with 239.9 per 100,000 compared to 75.8 and 48 in Japan and USA respectively. In order to manage disability treatments, it is recommended to use exoskeletons to help therapists in serving a greater number of patients simultaneously without getting tired. Treatment with the help of state-of-art exoskeletons equipped with mixed reality will be objective, personalized, and effective.

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We have developed a Gait Rehabilitation system comprising of an Exoskeleton and an intelligent controller. The proposed system will expedite the treatment of human lower limb disabilities caused by neurological disorders or incomplete spinal cord injuries. With the help of a bodyweight support system, the disabled person shall be lifted from a wheelchair and will be supported to stand on a rehabilitation treadmill. A lower-limb exoskeleton has been developed which will be fixed with the patients’ lower limb (at hip, knee, and ankle joints) to help them walk on the treadmill. It is known that if an exoskeleton is always moving the limbs of patients, the disability cannot be treated well. The patient will become dependent on the exoskeleton. We have developed an intelligent controller that creates an Artificial Intelligence-based musculoskeletal model of the user’s lower limbs from sensor data to know the capabilities of the patient. The controller will first allow the users to move their limbs to the extent they can and then the exoskeleton will support further movements. As a next step, the Gait Rehabilitation system shall be installed in the children’s rehabilitation hospital for clinical trials.

 

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