BRIGE: Translating Robotic Technology for Inclusive Fitness: An Innovative Robotic Rowing Exoskeleton (RRE) Development Project

智力价值：由于内在、环境和社会因素，残疾人，特别是重度残疾人，参加健身活动的机会极其有限。这座桥项目的重点是推进机器人技术，作为一种战略，促进一系列残疾人的健身机会。该项目将1)设计、测试和建造一个名为机器人划船外骨骼(RRE)的机器人原型设备，以增加赛艇活动中的运动、协调和力量；2)通过人体受试者数据产生赛艇生物力学和参数确定的完整动力学模型；3)提供一个模型系统，通过该模型系统，使用人类受试者数据确定生物力学和参数可以转换为精确的机器人辅助运动；4)将肌电图学和机器人学相结合，创建一个将对个人用户需求做出反应的原型；以及5)推进正在进行的机器人设备研究计划的开发，以提高生活质量。更广泛的影响：该项目将被用作由五个主要组成部分组成的苹果酒(在工程研究中创造调查人员多样性)模型的基础。首先，研究议程与个人相关且具有说服力的不同学生将被招募参加该计划的所有阶段。其次，每个学生研究人员都将在学校开展外联活动，并为初中生和高中生举办夏令营项目，以持续不断地招募不同的学生从事工程研究工作。第三，将制作RRE及其发展和使用的视频，在全国范围内进行现场和虚拟传播。第四，我们将继续正在进行的项目，为初中生和高中生，特别是女性，提供机器人演示，以鼓励他们从事工程职业。最后，将对该模型进行形式化和评估，以便它可以扩展以鼓励其他代表性不足的群体参与工程。

Intellectual Merit: The opportunities for inclusion in fitness activity for disabled individuals, particularly those with severe disabilities, are extremely limited due to intrinsic, environmental, and social factors. This BRIGE project focuses on advancing robotic technology as a strategy to promote fitness opportunities for a range of individuals with disabilities. This project will 1) design, test, and build a prototype robotic device called Robotic Rowing Exoskeleton (RRE) that will augment movement, coordination, and strength in the activity of rowing; 2) yield a complete dynamics model of rowing biomechanics and parameter determination via human subject data; 3) provide a model system through which biomechanics and parameter determination using human subject data can be translated into precise robotic-assisted movement; 4) integrate electromyography and robotics to create a prototype that will be responsive to individual user needs; and 5) advance the development of an ongoing research program in robotic devices for improved quality of life. Broader Impacts: This project will be used as the foundation for the CIDER (Creating Investigator Diversity in Engineering Research) model with five major components. First, diverse students for whom the research agenda is personally relevant and compelling will be recruited to participate in all phases of the program. Second, each of the student researchers will engage in outreach in schools and a summer camp program for middle and high school students to perpetuate ongoing recruitment of diverse students into engineering research careers. Third, a video of RRE, its development, and its use will be made for on-site and virtual dissemination nationwide. Fourth, we will continue an ongoing program which hosts robotics demos for middle school and high school students, especially, women, to encourage them to pursue a career in Engineering. Finally, the model will be formalized and evaluated so that it can be expanded to encourage the involvement of other underrepresented groups in engineering.