Individualization of Gait Therapy Through Patient-Tailored Trajectory Generation

This extended abstract presents the work being done in a project aimed at developing a mobile robotic system for individualized gait rehabilitation. As an important component of the individualisation of robot-assisted gait therapy, a method for “patient-tailored” trajectory generation was developed. This method provides the therapist with “healthy-like” walking patterns, dependent on the patient’s height and the desired cadence and walking speed, and allows the therapist to adapt the given trajectories in an intuitive graphical way to fit better the specific patient’s gait abilities.