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

智力优势：由于内在、环境和社会因素，残疾人，特别是严重残疾者参与健身活动的机会极其有限。这个BRIGE项目的重点是推进机器人技术，作为一种战略，以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）的原型机器人设备，该设备将增强划船活动中的运动，协调和力量; 2）通过人体数据产生划船生物力学和参数确定的完整动力学模型; 3）提供一种模型系统，通过该模型系统，可以将使用人类受试者数据的生物力学和参数确定转换为精确的机器人辅助运动; 4）整合肌电图和机器人技术，以创建一个原型，将响应个人用户的需求;和5）推进正在进行的研究计划，在机器人设备的发展，以提高生活质量。更广泛的影响：该项目将被用作CIDER（在工程研究中创建研究者多样性）模型的基础，该模型具有五个主要组成部分。首先，研究议程与个人相关且引人注目的多样化学生将被招募参加该计划的所有阶段。第二，每个学生研究人员将在学校和夏令营计划中参与外展活动，为初中和高中学生提供持续招募不同学生进入工程研究职业的机会。第三，将制作一个关于生殖资源教育、其发展和使用的录像，在全国范围内现场和虚拟传播。第四，我们将继续一个正在进行的项目，为初中和高中学生，特别是女性，举办机器人演示，鼓励他们从事工程职业。最后，该模型将被正式化和评估，以便它可以扩展到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.