3 Toward a Human-Friendly User Interface to Control an Assistive Robot in the Context of Smart Homes

Mokhtari, Mounir; Feki, Mohamed Ali; Abdulrazak, Bessam; Grandjean, Bernard

doi:10.1007/10946978_3

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“…Bien and Stefanov define humancentered rehabilitation robots as those which perform their functions without disturbing the user or causing him or her any pain, inconvenience, or movement restriction [4]. However, in the rehabilitation field, most human-centered robot applications are limited to the home-assistance tasks of bedridden or elderly subjects [5,[12][13].…”

Section: Human-centered Roboticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Human-centered robotics applied to gait training and assessment

Riener¹,

Lünenburger²,

Colombo³

2006

JRRD

143

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Abstract-Robot-aided gait training can increase the duration and number of training sessions while reducing the number of therapists required for each patient. However, current automated gait trainers do not adapt their movement to the patient's muscular efforts and passive musculoskeletal properties. Furthermore, robot-aided training without therapists lacks the feedback required for patient assessment. In this article, we present results from the literature and our research to provide an overview of novel human-centered strategies for robot behaviors that are patient-cooperative and support motorfunction assessment. Combining robot-aided training with robot-aided assessment will likely make future gait therapy easier, more comfortable, and more efficient. Broad clinical testing is still required for proving this assumption.

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Section: Human-centered Roboticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Human-centered robotics applied to gait training and assessment

Riener¹,

Lünenburger²,

Colombo³

2006

JRRD

143

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“…For example, the Robotic Room developed at the University of Tokyo includes a ceiling-mounted robotic arm that can bring objects to a bedridden user (Nakata et al, 1996). The smart house project developed at the INT is based on a layered control structure, which includes a MANUS rehabilitation robot (Abdulrazak et al, 2001;Ghorbel et al, 2004;Mokhtari et al, 2004;Feki et al, 2004). The MOVAID robotic system was intended as a component of a smart house arrangement to assist people with disabilities.…”

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confidence: 98%

Robotic smart house to assist people with movement disabilities

et al. 2006

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This paper introduces a new robotic smart house, Intelligent Sweet Home, developed at KAIST in Korea, which is based on several robotic agents and aims at testing advanced concepts for independent living of the elderly and people with disabilities. The work focuses on technical solutions for human-friendly assistance in motion/mobility and advanced human-machine interfaces that provide simple control of all assistive robotic systems and home-installed appliances. The smart house concept includes an intelligent bed, intelligent wheelchair, and robotic hoist for effortless transfer of the user between bed and wheelchair. The design solutions comply with most of the users' requirements and suggestions collected by a special questionnaire survey of people with disabilities. The smart house responds to the user's commands as well as to the recognized intentions of the user. Various interfaces, based on hand gestures, voice, body movement, and posture, have been studied and tested. The paper describes the overall system structure and

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“…Every patient has his/her specific abilities, functional needs, and interests. An emphasis on more autonomous use of robotic therapy systems makes the personalization of the human-technology interface very important [30]. There are two key components of the personalized interfaces: the physical interface (e.g., the device itself, its physical settings, and the range of operation of a device relative to the user's torso) and the communication interface.…”

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Recent Development of Rehabilitation Robots

Qian

2014

Advances in Mechanical Engineering

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We have conducted a critical review on the development of rehabilitation robots to identify the limitations of existing studies and clarify some promising research directions in this field. This paper is presented to summarize our findings and understanding. The demands for assistive technologies for elderly and disabled population have been discussed, the advantages and disadvantages of rehabilitation robots as assistive technologies have been explored, the issues involved in the development of rehabilitation robots are investigated, some representative robots in this field by leading research institutes have been introduced, and a few of critical challenges in developing advanced rehabilitation robots have been identified. Finally to meet the challenges of developing practical rehabilitation robots, reconfigurable and modular systems have been proposed to meet the identified challenges, and a few of critical areas leading to the potential success of rehabilitation robots have been discussed.

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3 Toward a Human-Friendly User Interface to Control an Assistive Robot in the Context of Smart Homes

Cited by 14 publications

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Human-centered robotics applied to gait training and assessment

Human-centered robotics applied to gait training and assessment

Robotic smart house to assist people with movement disabilities

Recent Development of Rehabilitation Robots

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