TY - JOUR
T1 - Toward Standardizing the Classification of Robotic Gait Rehabilitation Systems
AU - Ayad, Salheddine
AU - Ayad, Mohammed
AU - Megueni, Abdelkader
AU - Spaich, Erika G.
AU - Struijk, Lotte N. S. Andreasen
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - With the existence of numerous rehabilitation systems, classification and comparison becomes difficult, especially due to the many factors involved. Moreover, most current reviews are descriptive and do not provide systematic methods for the visual comparison of systems. This review proposes a method for classifying systems and representing them graphically to easily visualize various characteristics of the different systems at the same time. This method could be an introduction for standardizing the evaluation of gait rehabilitation systems. It evaluates four main modules (body weight support, reciprocal stepping mechanism, pelvis mechanism, and environment module) of 27 different gait systems based on a set of characteristics. The combination of these modular evaluations provides a description of the system 'in the space of rehabilitation.' The evaluation of each robotic module, based on specific characteristics, showed diverse tendencies. While there is an augmented interest in developing more sophisticated reciprocal stepping mechanisms, few researchers are dedicated to enhance the properties of pelvis mechanisms.
AB - With the existence of numerous rehabilitation systems, classification and comparison becomes difficult, especially due to the many factors involved. Moreover, most current reviews are descriptive and do not provide systematic methods for the visual comparison of systems. This review proposes a method for classifying systems and representing them graphically to easily visualize various characteristics of the different systems at the same time. This method could be an introduction for standardizing the evaluation of gait rehabilitation systems. It evaluates four main modules (body weight support, reciprocal stepping mechanism, pelvis mechanism, and environment module) of 27 different gait systems based on a set of characteristics. The combination of these modular evaluations provides a description of the system 'in the space of rehabilitation.' The evaluation of each robotic module, based on specific characteristics, showed diverse tendencies. While there is an augmented interest in developing more sophisticated reciprocal stepping mechanisms, few researchers are dedicated to enhance the properties of pelvis mechanisms.
KW - Legged locomotion
KW - Medical treatment
KW - Neurological diseases
KW - Pelvis
KW - Task analysis
KW - Visualization
KW - gait robotic systems
KW - rehabilitation robotics
KW - standards of classification
KW - visual comparison
KW - Gait robotic systems
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85058657274&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/RBME.2018.2886228
DO - 10.1109/RBME.2018.2886228
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1937-3333
VL - 12
SP - 138
EP - 153
JO - IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering
JF - IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering
M1 - 8572762
ER -