ROAR Lab completes the design of Stand Trainer and moves to the medical campus for patient studies

Funded by New York State Spinal Cord Injury Research Board, ROAR Lab has designed a stand trainer  for balance training of human subjects while standing. Stand Trainer can provide supportive or perturbative forces at the human trunk, pelvis, or knees while human subjects stand on force plates. A motion capture system tracks the whole body movement. Forces are applied on the human body through belts placed at the trunk, pelvis, and knees using light-weight cables using cable-driven system designs, pioneered at ROAR Lab. Preliminary studies have been conducted with healthy subjects and future studies are planned with patients with spinal cord injury and patients with other gait and balance disorders.