TY - GEN
T1 - CONTROL DESIGN AND PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF A MEDICAL EDUCATION SIMULATOR FOR ANKLE TENDON REFLEX ASSESSMENT TRAINING
AU - Pei, Yinan
AU - Zallek, Christopher M.
AU - Hsiao-Wecksler, Elizabeth T.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Dr. Li-Qun Zhang for sharing the raw dataset in [8] with us so that we could create Table 3.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Ankle (or Achilles) tendon reflex is commonly assessed in a neurological examination. For a clinician trainee to master the correct assessment technique of Achilles tendon reflex and to be able to distinguish among various reflex activity levels indicating health or abnormality, repetitive training and practice are necessary. We propose to develop a robotic medical education training simulator that would generate a realistic reflex behavior depending on the simulated reflex activity level selected when given a tendon tap assessment. This development was based on an existing ankle-foot simulator [5]. A modified sensing system is still under development. In this paper, a reflex model was developed to estimate the ankle reflexive torque based on the input tap force. This reflex model prediction was validated in simulation and then implemented into our robotic simulator prototype. Preliminary benchtop results demonstrated that our simulator was able to accurately deliver the reflexive torque pattern required to simulate the clinical reflex movement to the trainee.
AB - Ankle (or Achilles) tendon reflex is commonly assessed in a neurological examination. For a clinician trainee to master the correct assessment technique of Achilles tendon reflex and to be able to distinguish among various reflex activity levels indicating health or abnormality, repetitive training and practice are necessary. We propose to develop a robotic medical education training simulator that would generate a realistic reflex behavior depending on the simulated reflex activity level selected when given a tendon tap assessment. This development was based on an existing ankle-foot simulator [5]. A modified sensing system is still under development. In this paper, a reflex model was developed to estimate the ankle reflexive torque based on the input tap force. This reflex model prediction was validated in simulation and then implemented into our robotic simulator prototype. Preliminary benchtop results demonstrated that our simulator was able to accurately deliver the reflexive torque pattern required to simulate the clinical reflex movement to the trainee.
KW - Achilles Tendon
KW - Deep Tendon Reflex
KW - Medical Education Training
KW - Reflex Model
KW - Series Elastic Actuator
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U2 - 10.1115/DMD2022-1072
DO - 10.1115/DMD2022-1072
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85130239693
T3 - Proceedings of the 2022 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2022
BT - Proceedings of the 2022 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2022
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers
T2 - 2022 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2022
Y2 - 11 April 2022 through 14 April 2022
ER -