Jia Quan Loh
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Thesis title
Robot assisted upper limb rehabilitation strategies
Research overview
Reach-to-Grasp movement is a fundamental daily activity, requiring active coordination between the arm, hands, and fingers during motion. However, such movement, essential to many daily activities, is impaired for patients after stroke. Existing upper extremity (UE)rehabilitation robots tend to treat the hand and arm as separate systems instead as coordinated ones.This work proposes to develop and evaluate robotic systems for rehabilitation and/or assistive applications addressing such issue. Subsequent control strategies will be developed for smoother coordinated arm and hand movement assistance and evaluated experimentally. The prototype is intended to be incorporated into the current Arm Motus EMU robot to realise a fully integrated UE rehabilitation device.
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B.Eng. Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering (Honours), Monash University, Malaysia (2024)