Rehabilitation Knee Brace: Electronic Progress Monitoring
Translated title
Rehabilitation Knee Brace
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Term
7. term
Education
Publication year
2017
Submitted on
2017-01-10
Pages
71
Abstract
The focus of this report is to create a functioning knee brace prototype, which can be used to monitor the range of movement of surgically repaired knee. This is done by using a sensor to determine the angle between the lower leg and upper leg. Another focus area of this report is to try and implement motor assisted movement in the brace, since this will aid the recovering knee while it is try to regain control. This prototype will have a controlling unit, which will have to handle the output from the sensor used for angle monitoring, and the control of the motor used for the motor assisted movement part. For the motor assistance part a control system will be implement. The prototype knee brace will have to be designed and fabricated personally, which means a review of how this can be done will be performed. The final prototype ended up being fully functional, however the motor used was not implemented on the brace itself, but on a hinge to show the proof-of-concept. The project status can be viewed as a success, where the areas left as proof-of-concepts showed great promise.
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