Tremor suppression in wrist joint using active force control method
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- Conference Proceeding
- Citation:
- 9th Australasian Congress on Applied Mechanics, ACAM 2017, 2017, 2017-November
- Issue Date:
- 2017-01-01
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© 2017 National Committee on Applied Mechanics. All Rights Reserved. Tremor is a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary oscillations. Difficulties associated with tremor in patients with Parkinson’s disease have motivated the researchers to work on developing various methods for tremor suppression. Active Force Control (AFC) method for tremor attenuation in human body parts is considered in this work. This paper proposes a new AFC system based on a piezoelectric actuator. A three-degree-of-freedom musculoskeletal model including wrist flexion-extension (FE), radial-ulnar deviation (RUD), and pronation supination (PS) is developed for studying tremor in the wrist joint. The musculoskeletal model for this study contains four muscles; extensor carpi radialis longus, extensor carpi ulnaris, flexor carpi ulnaris and flexor carpi radialis. Also, the muscle model is developed from the classic Hill-type muscle model. First, simulation of the tremor generation in the model is performed and then the performance of AFC system for suppressing wrist joint tremor is investigated. A single piezoelectric actuator is embedded in AFC system for controlling the behavior of the classic proportional-derivative controller. MATLAB Simulink is used to analyze the model. Results show that the AFC-based system with a piezoelectric actuator and a PD controller is very effective in suppressing the human hand tremor.
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