TY - GEN
T1 - Variable Stiffness Structure for limb attachment
AU - Bureau, Maxime
AU - Keller, Thierry
AU - Perry, Joel
AU - Velik, Rosemarie
AU - Veneman, Jan F.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - In robotic rehabilitation, the way of attaching the robotic device to the users' limb constitutes a crucial element of product quality, particularly for assuring good fitting, comfort, accuracy, usability, and safety. In this article, we present a new technological concept - 'Variable Stiffness Structure' - allowing for an improvement of these aspects in the 'robotic device to limb' - connection by offering a compound of materials that are together able to switch from a flexible textile-like state to a more rigid state by applying negative pressure. The paper describes the concept and the basic behaviour of the material, based on experiments.
AB - In robotic rehabilitation, the way of attaching the robotic device to the users' limb constitutes a crucial element of product quality, particularly for assuring good fitting, comfort, accuracy, usability, and safety. In this article, we present a new technological concept - 'Variable Stiffness Structure' - allowing for an improvement of these aspects in the 'robotic device to limb' - connection by offering a compound of materials that are together able to switch from a flexible textile-like state to a more rigid state by applying negative pressure. The paper describes the concept and the basic behaviour of the material, based on experiments.
KW - body fitting element
KW - limb connection
KW - robotic rehabilitation
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/80055050532
U2 - 10.1109/ICORR.2011.5975350
DO - 10.1109/ICORR.2011.5975350
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 22275554
AN - SCOPUS:80055050532
SN - 9781424498628
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics
BT - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2011 - Rehab Week Zurich 2011
T2 - Rehab Week Zurich 2011 - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2011
Y2 - 27 June 2011 through 1 July 2011
ER -