КОНЦЕПТУАЛЬНОЕ ПРОЕКТИРОВАНИЕ МЕХАТРОННОГО СТЕНДА ДЛЯ ПРЕДКЛИНИЧЕСКИХ ИСПЫТАНИЙ РОБОТИЗИРОВАННЫХ ПРОТЕЗОВ НИЖНИХ КОНЕЧНОСТЕЙ

Abstract

Over the past several years, the first real prototypes of robotic prostheses have been developed in Russia, but they still lose competition to the best foreign designs and are practically not in demand in the domestic market of assistive devices. One of the reasons preventing this is the absence in Russia of stands for certification tests of robotic prostheses. In addition, the use of such stands at the design stage would significantly simplify the solution of the problem of synthesizing high-quality control systems and would not require the participation of disabled volunteers for their testing and adjustment. However, there are currently no analogues of such test benches in Russia. This paper describes a conceptual version of a mechatronic stand-simulator capable to simulate biosimilar movements of a human lower limb in various modes of physical activity under variable environmental parameters in order to adjust parameters, laboratory and preclinical tests of structures and control systems of active lower limbs prostheses and their modules. The stand can be easily upgraded for certification testing of robotic lower limb prostheses.