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Based on studies characterizing tremors in Parkinson\u2019s disease, the development of a robotic manipulator based on the Stewart platform was initiated, with the goal of satisfactorily simulating resting tremor movements in the hands. In this work, a simulator was implemented in a computational environment using the multibody dynamics method. The platform structure was designed in a virtual environment using SOLIDWORKS\u00ae v2017 software and later exported to Matlab\u00ae R17a software using the Simulink environment and Simscape multibody library. The workspace was evaluated, and the Kalman filter was used to merge acceleration and angular velocity data and convert them into data related to the inclination and rotation of real patients\u2019 wrists, which were subsequently executed in the simulator. The results show a high correlation and low dispersion between real and simulated signals, demonstrating that the simulated mechanism has the capacity to represent Parkinson\u2019s disease resting tremors in all wrist movements. The system could contribute to conducting tremor tests in suppression devices without the need for the presence of the patient and aid in comparing suppression techniques, benefiting the development of new wearable devices.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23229020","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,7]],"date-time":"2023-11-07T11:25:31Z","timestamp":1699356331000},"page":"9020","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Towards a Modular Pathological Tremor Simulation System Based on the Stewart Platform"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"suffix":"Jr.","given":"Jair","family":"Fajardo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Federal Institute of Paran\u00e1, Assis Chateaubriand Campus, Assis Chateaubriand 85935-000, Brazil"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Leonimer Fl\u00e1vio de","family":"Melo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Electrical Engineering, State University of Londrina, Londrina 86057-970, Brazil"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,11,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Mao, P., Li, H., and Yu, Z. 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