PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Šimšik, Dušan
AU  - Galajdová, Alena
AU  - Galajda, Pavol
AU  - Drutarovský, Miloš
TI  - Mechanical Modul with Jack-Screw for SMILING Rehabilitation Shoe
DP  - 2010 Oct 31
TA  - Acta Mechanica Slovaca
PG  - 98--105
VI  - 14
IP  - 2
IS  - 13352393
AB  - The SMILING shoe developed within the international project SMILING is a complex mechatronical system that requires human-machine interactions. Optimization of its motor control unit during tuning and durability testing was provided on the mechanical unit based on jack-screw mechanism designed at the Technical University of Košice. We present the architecture of the main mechatronical unit that consists of a mechanical unit based on jack-screw mechanism driven by DC motor with embedded gearbox and the microcontroller based Motor Control Unit (MCU). Chaotic data are used for control of all 8 actuators that perform perturbations in the pair of rehabilitation shoes devoted to training of seniors' gait. The parameters of the chaotic signal were optimised using simulation model to approve efficient chaotic sets of data.