报告主题：Development of the Next Generation Rehabilitation Robotics
报告时间：2017年12月26日上午9:00-11:30
报告地点：北门重点实验室A206会议室
主讲人：Dr. Yu Haoyong
主讲人简介：
Dr. Yu Haoyong is an Associate Professor of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He received his Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and his PhD degree from Massachusetts institute of Technology (MIT). He was the Principal Member of Technical Staff in DSO National Laboratories of Singapore before he joined NUS 2010. He is a Principal Investigator of the Singapore Institute of Neurotechnology (SiNAPSE) and the Advanced Robotic Center of NUS (ARC) of NUS. His current research interests include biomedical robotics and devices, rehabilitation engineering and assistive technology, biologically inspired robotics, intelligent control and machine learning. http://www.bioeng.nus.edu.sg/biorob/
主题简介：
The population aging has resulted in escalating cost in healthcare due to increasing number of patients and the decreasing number of healthcare workers. Robotics technologies offer great potential to reduce cost in healthcare by improving the productivity. Robots can be also be used to improve outcomes of treatment such as physical therapy for stroke patients.
In this talk, a general introduction of the development of rehabilitation robots for neurorehabilitation as well as assistive robots at Biorobotics Lab at the National University of Singapore will be introduced, which include exoskeleton robots and smart walker for gait training and smart hospital bed movers for healthcare workers.
The focus of this talk will be on the design and control of a novel robotic exoskeleton for sub-acute and chronic stroke patients and a robotics walker for patients to conduct over-ground gait training at home and outpatient setting. Preliminary clinical trials with stroke patients also prove that the system can improve the gait patterns of the patients. More comprehensive clinical trials with randomized control study will be conducted before commercialization of the device.
