What Will Learn?

• Course Aims

  By the end of the course the students will be able to: • Appreciate the most important types of health impairment, their causes, their medical background, and their effects on individuals and the society. • Understand the basic rehabilitation technics, and the medical concepts behind them. • Realize the importance of robots in the rehabilitation field. • Comprehension of the different functions that robots can do in rehabilitation. • Implement human-robot interaction techniques, relevant to rehabilitation. • Practice the design fundamentals of usability, design interaction, and user experience. • Realize the importance of the above in improving the human-robot interaction in rehabilitation, and in general. • Understand the analysis and design steps required to build a rehabilitation robot. • Model muscle movement. • Develop a simplified physiological model for parts of the body. • Validate the above models. • Design simple rehabilitation robots, utilizing the above-mentioned tools and techniques. • Control the motion of the above robots.

Requirements

MCT343 AND MCT342

Description

• English Description
  
  Introduction to rehabilitation robots, the role of robotic in rehabilitation, rehabilitation and assessment technology fundamentals, motor learning and brain plasticity, physiological basis of neuromotor recovery, key factors in rehabilitation process such as: Intensity, Manner, Psychological Factors, Instructions, Feedback, … etc. Biomechatronic design criteria of systems for robot-mediated rehabilitation therapy, Actuation for robot-aided rehabilitation, backdrivability, design and control strategies such as motion, compliant, force, impedance and admittance control, assistive controllers and modalities for robot-aided neurorehabilitation. Rehabilitation robotics of patients with motor disorders, pathological tremor, stroke, amputation, paralysis and disability management. Game based rehabilitation robotics.
• Arabic Description
  
  Introduction to rehabilitation robots, the role of robotic in rehabilitation, rehabilitation and assessment technology fundamentals, motor learning and brain plasticity, physiological basis of neuromotor recovery, key factors in rehabilitation process such as: Intensity, Manner, Psychological Factors, Instructions, Feedback, … etc. Biomechatronic design criteria of systems for robot-mediated rehabilitation therapy, Actuation for robot-aided rehabilitation, backdrivability, design and control strategies such as motion, compliant, force, impedance and admittance control, assistive controllers and modalities for robot-aided neurorehabilitation. Rehabilitation robotics of patients with motor disorders, pathological tremor, stroke, amputation, paralysis and disability management. Game based rehabilitation robotics.