Design and Validation of a Novel Robotic Neck Brace for Cervical Traction

Kulkarni, Priya; Agrawal, Sunil K.

doi:10.1109/tmech.2024.3402614

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Design and development of an intelligent neck and head support system based on eye blink recognition for cervical dystonia

Deif,

Attar,

Alrosan

et al. 2024

Discov Appl Sci

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Design and development of an intelligent neck and head support system based on eye blink recognition for cervical dystonia

Deif,

Attar,

Alrosan

et al. 2024

Discov Appl Sci

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Design of a traction neck brace with two degrees-of-freedom via a novel architecture of a spatial parallel mechanism

Zhou,

Kulkarni,

Zhao

et al. 2024

Robotica

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Traction of the head-neck is important in the treatment of patients suffering from neck pain due to degeneration of the intervertebral discs. Conventional neck traction is provided manually by experienced physical therapists who maintain a desired orientation of the head-neck relative to the trunk while applying the traction. It is postulated that innovative designs of neck exoskeletons can provide the same function both flexibly and accurately. This article presents a novel architecture of a parallel mechanism whose base sits on the human shoulders with 4 parallel chains, each chain having a revolute-revolute-universal-revolute (RRUR) structure, while the end-effector is connected rigidly to the human head. Each chain has five degrees-of-freedom (DOF) and applies a constraint on the motion of the end-effector. As a result, this parallel mechanism allows two DOFs to the end-effector. These are (i) forward flexion or lateral bending of the head and (ii) vertical translation. An important motivation for the current design with RRUR structure is to characterize the range of forward flexion/lateral bending of the head-neck with this structure and the vertical translation to the end-effector. A physical prototype was constructed and tested to evaluate the performance of this mechanism in hardware for the proposed application.

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A parallel-actuated robot with two end-effector degrees-of-freedom: Application as a novel wearable head-neck traction brace

Zhou,

Kulkarni,

Agrawal

2024

2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

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Design and Validation of a Novel Robotic Neck Brace for Cervical Traction

Cited by 3 publications

References 28 publications

Design and development of an intelligent neck and head support system based on eye blink recognition for cervical dystonia

Design and development of an intelligent neck and head support system based on eye blink recognition for cervical dystonia

Design of a traction neck brace with two degrees-of-freedom via a novel architecture of a spatial parallel mechanism

A parallel-actuated robot with two end-effector degrees-of-freedom: Application as a novel wearable head-neck traction brace

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