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The proposed work was developed as part of the SmartHealth project, which aims to advance upper body rehabilitation by granting a robotic alternative to reduce the limitations of physical therapy while conferring more intensive and personalized therapy sessions for patients. The use of robots permits therapists to be relieved of laborious and repetitive tasks while supplying feedback for patients and physiotherapists through automatic recordings. The proposed strategy is to develop new python-based software that controls the robot, collects the patient’s forces and muscle activity in real-time, and stores them for future analysis while providing visual feedback, thus allowing session optimization. These features permit the physiotherapist to objectively perceive the patient’s performance during exercise. This solution is implemented in robots already commercialized in the industrial field. These kinds of robots are generally mass-produced in production lines at a relatively low cost and with great flexibility.
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This work has been supported by SmartHealth - Inteligência Artificial para Cuidados de Saúde Personalizados ao Longo da Vida, under the project number NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000045.
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Chellal, A.A. et al. (2022). SmartHealth: A Robotic Control Software for Upper Limb Rehabilitation. In: Brito Palma, L., Neves-Silva, R., Gomes, L. (eds) CONTROLO 2022. CONTROLO 2022. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 930. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10047-5_59
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