Recently, in the Robotics Research Center of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in Chengdu, Sichuan, Lin Han, a high-level paraplegic patient, independently completed forward, steering and other actions with the assistance of the equipment after wearing the exoskeleton robot, and this walking training has become his daily rehabilitation training after paraplegia.
In 2013, Lin Han was injured in an accident and lost mobility in both lower limbs. In 2015, during the rehabilitation treatment in the hospital, Lin Han first came into contact with the exoskeleton robot developed by the scientific research team established by Professor Cheng Hong of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, and became a volunteer for the device wearing experiment.
【During the same period】Volunteer Lin Han
I was injured in December 2013, when I fell from the 12th floor, and after the fall, I was completely unconscious from the navel down, and then it was also a fate, because I was doing treatment in (the hospital) in 4, and then Mr. Cheng and they took the team to the hospital to find patients to try on, and then this is how the first contact with exoskeleton robots.
【Explanation】Exoskeleton robot is a rehabilitation medicine equipment that helps patients stand and walk again through interactive control, anthropomorphic gait and high-precision motor control algorithms. In 2010, Cheng Hong set up a scientific research team to develop exoskeleton robots from scratch, and he hoped that robots could help more patients stand up.
【During the same period】Professor Cheng Hong of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
The exoskeleton robot developed by the Robotics Research Center of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, we not only pursue its technological innovation and leadership in academia, but also want to benefit more patients. Hope to use robots to help patients who cannot stand up, our greatest sense of achievement and happiness in doing this exoskeleton robot is to see him (the patient) stand up and live very happily.
【Commentary】Cheng Hong said frankly that exoskeleton robots integrate sensing, control, information, mobile computing and other technologies, involving cross-integration and collaboration of multiple disciplines, and how to break the barriers between disciplines has become a major dilemma in the research of the project.
【During the same period】Professor Cheng Hong of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Exoskeleton robot It is a wearable robot, what we do is a medical exoskeleton robot that we do, it needs to be applied clinically, so we have encountered such a problem of how to cross (combine) between medical and engineering, that is, to apply to clinical patients and doctors their preferences and product needs.
At present, the exoskeleton robot developed by Cheng Hong's team has been successfully developed for five generations. As a volunteer of the project's wearing experiment, after several years of rehabilitation practice, Lin Han's body has been greatly restored, and he has also witnessed the update and iteration of exoskeleton robots.
【During the same period】Volunteer Lin Han
In fact, I think exoskeleton robots have changed my life, since I first contacted exoskeleton robots in 2015, our gait has been changing so far, until now it is an anthropomorphic gait. This change in exoskeleton robots can be adapted to many, many patients, like when I first wore it, it could only be adapted to patients with the lower waist and chest. Now that the exoskeleton is updated and iterated, it can adapt to patients with injuries like the cervical spine, patients who can't move their arms, and it can also make them walk and make them stand up.
【Commentary】In order to transform this scientific and technological achievement, the Robotics Research Center of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China has cooperated with a number of hospitals. At present, more than 100 hospitals have applied exoskeleton robots, and tens of thousands of patients have carried out clinical trials of exoskeleton robots. Cheng Hong hopes that in the future, exoskeleton robots can be applied to more clinical treatment scenarios, so that patients can truly walk freely.
【During the same period】Professor Cheng Hong of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Because we (exoskeleton robot) apply a lot of patients, so we also have a relatively large breakthrough in comfort, in addition, in fact, after these years of research, we have broken through some technologies such as foreign motors and harmonics, so we only need this domestic motor, harmonics can achieve a complete set of exoskeleton robot its integration. In the future, the direction of its (exoskeleton robot) development is that it (exoskeleton robot) adapts to more complex terrain, so that paraplegics are really not constrained by the terrain, and he can even carry out activities in the wild. It (exoskeleton robot) needs to be improved in terms of the comfort of wearing, (to) combine the technology of some soft robots with the technology of the current rigid exoskeleton robot, I think this is a future development direction and a direction of efforts.
He Meikun reported from Chengdu, Sichuan
Responsible Editor: [Fang Jialiang]