Aramis: A “virtua-mechatronic” approach for neuro-rehabilitation purposes

Abstract

ARAMIS (automatic Recovery arm Motility integrated System) is a master-slave exoskeleton robot, studied and designed in order to provide the therapist an innovative and time/cost efficiency approach to the rehabilitation of the paretic upper limb after a stroke event. The system has been developed in order to enable therapists to define and apply, patient specific rehabilitation exercises. the final prototype enables three types of exercises: 1) Asyncronous Exercise 2) Syncronous Exercise and 3) Virtual Reality Based Exercise. The research activities were carried on in a multidisciplinary environment composed by neurologist, engineers, ICT specialists and designers.