- 착용형 전동 목발 제어시스템
- ㆍ 저자명
- 윤덕찬,장기호,최영진,Yoon. Dukchan,Jang. Giho,Choi. Youngjin
- ㆍ 간행물명
- 로봇학회논문지
- ㆍ 권/호정보
- 2014년|9권 3호|pp.133-139 (7 pages)
- ㆍ 발행정보
- 한국로봇학회
- ㆍ 파일정보
- 정기간행물| PDF텍스트
- ㆍ 주제분야
- 기타
This paper proposes a wearable and motorized crutch control system for the patients using the conventional crutches. The conventional crutches have a few disadvantages such as the inconvenience caused by the direct contact between the ground and the armpit of the patients, and unstable gait patterns. In order to resolve these problems, the motorized crutch is designed as a wearable type on an injured lower limb. In other words, the crutch makes the lower limb to be moved forward while supporting the body weight, protecting the lower limb with frames, and rotating a roller equipped on the bottom of the frames. Also the crutch is controlled using the electromyography and two force sensing resistor (FSR) sensors. The electromyography is used to extract the walking intention from the patient and the FSR sensors to classify the stance and swing phases while walking. As a result, the developed crutch makes the patients walk enabling both hands to be free, as if normal people do.