Design and manufacture a haptic system to rehabilitate the muscles of the hand

Abstract

The paper’s objective is to fabricate a novel haptic system for hand muscular rehabilitation applications after hemiplegia that happens after stroke. This prototype is categorised as end-effectors. By using this equipment, patient can perform both active range of motion and passive range of motion. Each rehabilitation device equipped haptic technology for evaluation of force exerted by patient’s limb using multi-axial force sensors. Unlike previous proposed devices and state of the art devices, our proposed device evaluates force exerted only receiving feedback of haptic device the current draw of DC motor. In fact, no force sensor has been used in our proposed haptic device.