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The paper presents an innovative architecture of a parallel robot designed for lower limb rehabilitation of post-stroke patients. The work presented in this paper addresses the challenges presented in numerous reports, like in the Multi-Annual Roadmap, ICT 24-28 concerning the need for rehabilitation and assistive devices with the ageing of population, especially in Europe. The robot has a simple design and it is intended to be used especially for bed-ridden patients, even since the acute phase of the stroke, to accelerate the rehabilitation process. A complete kinematic analysis has been performed using the Study parameters of SE(3), and numerical simulations have been presented.
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The paper presents results from the research activities of the project ID 37_215, MySMIS code 103415 “Innovative approaches regarding the rehabilitation and assistive robotics for healthy ageing” cofinanced by the European Regional Development Fund through the Competitiveness Operational Programme 2014–2020, Priority Axis 1, Action 1.1.4, through the financing contract 20/01.09.2016, between the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and ANCSI as Intermediary Organism in the name and for the Ministry of European Funds.
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Gherman, B. et al. (2019). A Kinematic Characterization of a Parallel Robotic System for Lower Limb Rehabilitation. In: Corves, B., Wenger, P., Hüsing, M. (eds) EuCoMeS 2018 . EuCoMeS 2018. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 59. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98020-1_4
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