Development of Automated System for Facilitating the Movement of Differently Abled Persons

Deepali Sale; R. S. Bindu; Vinayak Deokar; Gauri Kulkarni; Mayur Meshram; Pooja Malpure

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There are numbers of people who suffer from partial paralysis (paresis) or other neurological strokes.The proposed work mainly focuses on physical therapy to improve the level of mobility of strokevictims. For helping neurologically damaged patients during therapy, an upper limb robotic orthoticis developed. The system consists of four servo motors which are used for pattern generation for thefour fingers with a crank-shaft mechanism attached, which converts their rotational motion intolinear motion. The purpose of this motion is to reduce spasticity, paresis, and muscular tone bypromoting early movement of the hand after suffering a stroke or other neurological conditions, andto encourage neuroplastic changes in the brain, by creating new connections between functionalneurons to control affected limbs. The automated control is performed with the help of Proteussoftware and Arduino based system. The unique system is proposed to help the patient to forperforming and practicing their therapy program. The proposed work aims to develop a low cost andtime efficient solution for the finger rehabilitation. In proposed system using Arduino servo motorsare operated and that servo motor rotates the crank shaft. When crank shaft moves up and down theexercise of fingers will be done. The 4 buttons will operate 4 servo motors in various predefinedmanner like first button will operate only one motor so exercise of only one finger will done and samemanner second will for two, third button for three fingers and forth button for exercise of four motors.

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