用协作机器人减少假肢使用者的代偿动作,提升使用舒适度与效率。
Mitigating Compensatory Movements in Prosthesis Users via Adaptive Collaborative Robotics
- 基于用户残余运动能力构建个性化功能模型,量化代偿代价。
- 优化算法计算最优姿势,使假肢使用更高效且减少关节负担。
- 适合假肢康复、人机协作及辅助设备研发者参考。
假肢使用者虽可恢复部分肢体功能,但难以实现自然运动,常出现代偿性动作,导致不适、低效和长期身体损伤。为此,本文提出一种新型人-机器人协作框架,通过利用残余运动能力并满足任务需求,缓解上肢假肢使用者的代偿机制。方法引入个性化移动性模型,量化各关节的功能限制及代偿动作的成本,并集成到约束优化框架中,计算出兼顾功能与舒适的最优用户姿态。该方案指导协作机器人重构任务环境以促进有效交互。在一款针对单指截肢设计的体能驱动假肢上验证,该假肢通过与手部协同闭合增强抓握能力,但施加腕部约束。健康受试者佩戴该假肢作为额外手指进行实验,结果显示,嵌入用户特异性移动性模型的机器人助手在交接任务中表现优于人类搭档,显著提升假肢使用者的抓握效率,同时降低功能性关节的代偿动作。结果表明,协作机器人有望成为工作与照护场景中的有效辅助工具,推动假肢更深度融入日常活动。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Prosthesis users can regain partial limb functionality, however, full natural limb mobility is rarely restored, often resulting in compensatory movements that lead to discomfort, inefficiency, and long-term physical strain. To address this issue, we propose a novel human-robot collaboration framework to mitigate compensatory mechanisms in upper-limb prosthesis users by exploiting their residual motion capabilities while respecting task requirements. Our approach introduces a personalised mobility model that quantifies joint-specific functional limitations and the cost of compensatory movements. This model is integrated into a constrained optimisation framework that computes optimal user postures for task performance, balancing functionality and comfort. The solution guides a collaborative robot to reconfigure the task environment, promoting effective interaction. We validated the framework using a new body-powered prosthetic device for single-finger amputation, which enhances grasping capabilities through synergistic closure with the hand but imposes wrist constraints. Initial experiments with healthy subjects wearing the prosthesis as a supernumerary finger demonstrated that a robotic assistant embedding the user-specific mobility model outperformed human partners in handover tasks, improving both the efficiency of the prosthesis user's grasp and reducing compensatory movements in functioning joints. These results highlight the potential of collaborative robots as effective workplace and caregiving assistants, promoting inclusion and better integration of prosthetic devices into daily tasks.
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