Anthropomorphic mechatronics for sports and medicine

The article describes the prospects for the development and implementation of anthropomorphic mechatronics to the practice of sports and medicine. The main objects of research were sport and medical exoskeletons. The main function of a sport exoskeleton is to get the best conditions for the formation and increasing of the effectiveness of sport technique. The technology offers a completely new approach to the transfer of "sports" knowledge and skills. Usually, the coach affects on audiovisual channels, but a sport exoskeleton transmits a significant amount of information through proprioceptive channels (sensations) when performing a real exercise, and not only ideomotor one. Thus, control of the athlete's body segments is carried out independently on the basis of the received signals from his body, and not only because feedback from the coach. This is the main effect for athlete, due to which it is possible to significantly increase the quickness of transmission of training information and, as a consequence, the quickness of mastering of effective sport technique. The using of exoskeletons in rehabilitee medicine is primarily need for a comprehensive solution in the rehabilitation of patients with impaired or loss of motor function due to diseases of various etiologies. In this case, the exoskeleton acts as a mechanism that determines the body segment movement. Management of such an exoskeleton is carried out through a special interface "brain-computer". The task of training medical personnel using robotic complexes generally coincides with the sports tasks associated with the formation of a stable motor skill and the improvement of the technique of movement action. The medical exoskeleton is used as a simulator for the training the structure and the needed characteristics of the movement at performing the operations.