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Reconfigurable Muscle Strength Training Robot with Multi-mode Training for 17 Joint Movements

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Different from limb rehabilitation training, the purpose of muscle strength training is to reduce muscle atrophy and increase muscle strength and tolerance through strength training of limb muscles, and then improve the muscle strength level of muscles (groups), mainly for sports fitness and muscle strengthening groups and patients with muscle atrophy or muscle weakness caused by various diseases. In this paper, we developed a new reconfigurable muscle strength training robot, a bionic robot by imitating physicians to conduct muscle strength training for patients, which was developed with six training modes for 17 joint movements, that is, the shoulder flexion/extension, the shoulder internal/external rotation, the shoulder adduction/abduction, the elbow flexion/extension, the wrist supination/pronation, the wrist flexion/extension, the wrist radial/ulnar deviation, the hip flexion/extension, the hip internal/external rotation, the hip adduction/abduction, the knee flexion/extension, the ankle dorsiflexion/plantarflexion, the ankle adduction/abduction, the ankle inversion/eversion, the waist flexion/extension, the waist left/right rotation, and the waist left/right flexion. The reconfigurable mechanism was designed with fully electric adjuster and reconfigurable adaptors deployed on the driving unit, and six training modes were developed, namely, continuous passive motion, active exercise, passive–active exercise, isotonic exercise, isometric exercise and isokinetic exercise. Experiments with knee joint and elbow joint have shown that the developed reconfigurable muscle strength training robot can realize the multi-mode trainings for the 17 joint movements.

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This work was supported in part by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2018YFB1307004), in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61903011 and 52175001). Also, we’d like to thank Henan Huibo Medical Co., Ltd., China, for some useful suggestions on this apparatus.

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  1. Bei**g Key Laboratory of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Faculty of Materials and Manufacturing, Bei**g University of Technology, Bei**g, 100124, People’s Republic of China

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  2. The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266000, People’s Republic of China

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  3. The CSSC System Engineering Research Institute, Bei**g, 100094, People’s Republic of China

    Liwei Jiang

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JL, MD and XR conceived and designed this study. LJ and RJ performed the mechanical design of the mechanism. QF, MD and RJ completed the training methods. JL, QF and MD wrote the paper. XR, LJ and RJ reviewed and edited the manuscript.

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Li, J., Fang, Q., Dong, M. et al. Reconfigurable Muscle Strength Training Robot with Multi-mode Training for 17 Joint Movements. J Bionic Eng 20, 212–224 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42235-022-00254-5

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