Design and Verification of Isokinetic Muscle Strength Rehabilitation Training Equipment Based on Oil Resistance

Abstract

This study designed an isokinetic muscle strength rehabilitation training equipment, based on oil resistance. The equipment detected joint angles during movement through displacement sensors to measure the angular velocity in real-time. Then it can achieve flow resistance adjustment and constant velocity movement, based on the flow area of the proportional valve calculated by PID algorithm and the deviation between the set speed and the measured speed. The equipment can also collect muscle strength during exercise through force-sensitive sensors to achieve real-time and accurate assessment of muscle strength. Moreover, the study preliminarily certificated the isokinetic motion the results showed that the mean error of peak torque test is less than 5%, and the correlation is between 0.89 and 0.92 (P<0.05). Therefore, the device has an accurate isokinetic muscle training function, which is of great value for developing low-cost isokinetic muscle rehabilitation training.