Analysis of upper limb movement for biofeedback in rehabilitation

The work deals with sensing the movement of upper limbs using biofeedback and subsequent use in rehabilitation. It is important to get acquainted with the problems of the motor system, physiology and pathology of the upper limbs and methods of their rehabilitation. Furthermore, types and applications of biofeedback in rehabilitation are discussed. A part of the thesis is also a research, which describes the state in the area of sensing and analysis of movements of upper limbs and types of sensors used. In the next part of the work were described ways of measuring, signal processing and building a measuring chain for scanning the range of movements of the forearm and wrist, which is connected to a PC and provides information for rehabilitation. A user interface is created in the form of a rehabilitation game, using visual biofeedback to improve the course of rehabilitation. From the results and analysis of measurements it can be said that the proposed system contributes to the improvement of movements, their coordination and accuracy. (C) 2019, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Hosting by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.