Intelligent Robotic Rehabilitation Systems

Meng课程在几个模块中涵盖了研究和统计的几个方面，除此之外，我最后一年的项目是在伯明翰大学的机器人研究小组，需要学习使用新的专注于研究的软件，支持相关研究论文的拨款申请，并使用统计分析方法。我申请研究的项目是伯明翰步态机器人康复系统，目前正在由Saadat博士领导的机器人研究小组成员开发。作为我在伯明翰大学的最后一年项目的一部分，我与这个团队的成员一起工作，扮演了几个不同的角色。我首先帮助一个拨款申请，机器人系统的设计被一个在校的博士生改变了，我设计了支持系统的结构和环境。我从2011年ISO 9241-210国际标准中概述的以人为中心的设计(HCD)来应对这一挑战，这一观点涉及确保设计利用了广泛领域的技能和专业知识。这涉及到对现有模型、当前康复技术领域和患者心理学的研究，以确保设计符合目的。在提出这项拨款申请后，我对几年前为研究小组进行的一项实验进行了步态分析。这些数据在过去曾被以多种方式利用，但目前分析的目标是通过统计手段比较对照受试者和中风幸存者，目的是使用结果来验证或建议对BGRRS当前设计的改进。我希望通过为小组引入一套不同的技能和增强现有技能来进一步推进这一项目。这将意味着我们将能够在外部研究的基础上构建该设备，该研究将指导该项目以确保最终设计将非常适合患者和物理治疗师，并且从财务和制造的角度来看也是可以实现的。在该项目期间，我预计我们将需要用我们自己的新奇工作来填补文献中的空白，以促进我们在该主题方面的知识和专业知识，以确保该项目是成功的。这将包括针对竞争对手验证机器人设计，以显示所做的改进，例如显示脚踝自由度增加和用户康复增加之间的相关性，到设计新的控制方案和机械特征来实现这些目标。

MEng course has covered several aspects of research and statistics in several modules and in addition to this my final year project has been within the Robotic Research group at the University of Birmingham and has necessitated learning to work with new research focused software's, support grant applications with the relevant research papers and working with statistical means of analysis.The project that I am applying to research for is the Birmingham Gait Robotic Rehabilitation Systemcurrently in development by members of the Robotic Research Group under Dr.Saadat. As part ofmy final year project at The University of Birmingham I worked alongside members of this group inseveral different roles.I first helped contribute to a grant application for which the design of the robotic system had beenchanged by a current PhD student and I designed the supporting structure and environment in whichthe system would be used. I approached this challenge from a Human-Centred Design (HCD) asoutlined in International Standards, ISO 9241-210, 2011, a point of view which involved ensuring thedesign utilised skills and expertise from a wide range of areas. This involved research into existingmodels, the current field of rehabilitation technology and patient psychology to ensure that thedesign was fit for purpose.After this grant application was put in I worked on gait analysis of an experiment that had beenperformed for the research group a few years ago. This data had been utilised in several ways in thepast but the goal of the current analysis was to compare the control subjects and the StrokeSurvivors via statistical means with the goal of using the results to validate or suggest improvementsto the current design of the BGRRS.I wish to take this project further by bringing in a different set of skills to the group as well asaugmenting existing ones. This would mean that we would be able to build the device based off ourown research which would guide the project to ensure that the end design was something thatwould be well suited to both the patients and physiotherapists and would also be achievable from afinancial and manufacturing point of view.During this project, I would expect that we would need to fill gaps in the literature with our ownnovel work to further our knowledge and expertise in the subject to ensure that the project is asuccess. This would range from working on validating the design of robot against competitors toshow the improvements made, e.g showing correlation in increased degrees of freedom for theankle and an increase in rehabilitation in the user, to designing new control schemes and mechanicalfeatures to realise these goals.