Robot Assisted Ankle Neuro-Rehabilitation: State of the art and Future Challenges
Hussain S. Jamwal P.K. Vliet P.V. Brown N.A.T.
2021Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics
2021#21Issue 1111 - 121 pp.
Introduction: Robot-assisted neuro-rehabilitation is gaining acceptability among the physical therapy community. The ankle is one of the most complicated anatomical joints in the human body and neurologic injuries such as stroke often result in ankle and foot disabilities. Areas covered: Robotic solutions for the ankle joint physical therapy have extensively been researched. Significant research has been conducted on the mechanism design, actuation as well as control of these ankle rehabilitation robots. Also, the experimental evaluations of these robots have been conducted with healthy and neurologically impaired subjects. This paper presents a comprehensive review of the recent developments in the field of robot-assisted ankle rehabilitation. Mechanism design, actuation, and various types of control strategies are discussed. Also, the experimental evaluations of these ankle rehabilitation robots are discussed in the context of the evaluation of robotic hardware with healthy subjects as well as motor function outcomes with neurologically impaired subjects. Expert opinion: Significant progress in the mechanism design, control, and experimental evaluations of the ankle rehabilitation robots have been reported. However, more sensing and reference trajectory generation methods need to be developed as well as more objective quantitive evaluations that need to be conducted for establishing the clinical significance of these robots.
Ankle rehabilitation , control strategies , mechanism design , orthosis , parallel robot , robots
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Human-Centred Technology Research Center, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Research and Innovation Division, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia
The Faculty of Health, University of Canberra Hospital, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Human-Centred Technology Research Center
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research and Innovation Division
The Faculty of Health
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