Development of an abnormal gait analysis system in gait exercise assist robot 'Welwalk' for hemiplegic stroke patients

Issei Nakashima, Daisuke Imoto, Satoshi Hirano, Masahiko Mukaino, Masayuki Imaida, Eiichi Saitoh, Yohei Otaka

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Welwalk WW-1000 is a gait exercise robotic assist system that allows subjects to walk on treadmill by attaching a knee-ankle-foot robot to a paralyzed limb. Abnormal gait patterns during exercise using Welwalk WW-1000 are evaluated by gait observation or marker-based motion analysis systems. However, gait observation is a subjective and ordinal measure, and marker-based motion analysis systems are challenging to implement due to the complexity of preparing equipment and attaching markers to subjects. In this study, we propose the Welwalk WW-2000 system, which incorporated a marker-less motion analysis system that detects abnormal gait patterns during exercise using the robotic system. Using this system, it is expected that a gait exercise program can be planned from easily obtainable, objective information. This system detects the features of abnormal gait patterns using the body position coordinates of the subject obtained from three-dimensional, inertial, knee angle, and load sensors. The purpose of this study was to validate the marker-less motion analysis system against marker-based motion analysis systems. One healthy male simulated the seven abnormal gait patterns which occur frequently in stroke patients, with four grades of severity. Spearman's rank correlation coefficients were calculated for the relationship between the abnormal gait pattern parameters calculated by each motion analysis system. The correlations between the two systems ranged from 0.81 to 0.95. Therefore, it was confirmed that the marker-less motion analysis system of the Welwalk WW-2000 was valid.

本文言語英語
ホスト出版物のタイトル2020 8th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2020
出版社IEEE Computer Society
ページ1030-1035
ページ数6
ISBN(電子版)9781728159072
DOI
出版ステータス出版済み - 11-2020
外部発表はい
イベント8th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2020 - New York City, 米国
継続期間: 29-11-202001-12-2020

出版物シリーズ

名前Proceedings of the IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics
2020-November
ISSN(印刷版)2155-1774

会議

会議8th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2020
国/地域米国
CityNew York City
Period29-11-2001-12-20

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • 人工知能
  • 生体医工学
  • 機械工学

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