Bioengineering study of a motor rehabilitation system using a metal hydride actuator

在老龄化社会，人们担心卧床不起的老年人会因为中风和骨折等疾病和伤害而增加。在这种社会背景下，我们一直在开发一种使用软金属氢化物致动器的运动康复系统，用于家庭保健和关节康复，以帮助防止废用综合征。为了解决上述问题，我们在生物医学实验的基础上研究了被动关节运动的效果和老年人跌倒风险的评估指标，并开发了一种使用MH合金作为紧凑型动力源的人性化软执行器，其中许多是医学和工程合作进行的。

In an aging society, there is concern that the population of bedridden elderly people will increase due to diseases and injuries such as cerebral strokes and bone fractures. From this social background, we have been developing a motor rehabilitation system using a soft metal hydride actuator for home health care and joint rehabilitation to help prevent disuse syndromes. To address the above concerns, we studied the effect of passive joint exercise and the evaluation index of fall risk for elderly people based on biomedical experiments, and developed a human-friendly soft actuator using an MH alloy for the compact source of a driving force, many of which were undertaken in collaboration between medicine and engineering.