A Low-Cost Assistive Robot for Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders to Aid in Daily Living Activities

López-Sastre, Roberto J.; Baptista-Ríos, Marcos; Acevedo-Rodríguez, Francisco Javier; Pacheco-da-Costa, Soraya; Maldonado-Bascón, Saturnino; Lafuente-Arroyo, S.

doi:10.3390/ijerph18083974

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“…Technically, the robotic platform (see Fig 2 ), named LOLA [ 20 ], has been entirely designed and constructed by the UAH team in the project. It is a differential wheeled robot, equipped with two motors and their corresponding encoders, which are controlled with an Arduino board.…”

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Assessment and counseling to get the best efficiency and effectiveness of the assistive technology (MATCH): Study protocol

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Aims To determine the psychosocial impact of assistive technology(AT) based on robotics and artificial intelligence in the life of people with disabilities. Background The best match between any person with disabilities and its AT only can be gotten through a complete assessment and monitoring of his/her needs, abilities, priorities, difficulties and limitations. Without this analysis, it’s possible that the device won’t meet the individual’s expectations. Therefore, it is important that any project focused on the development of innovating AT for people with disabilities includes the perspective of outcome measures as an important phase of the research. In this sense, the integration of the assessment, implementation process and outcome measures is crucial to guarantee the transferability for the project findings and to get the perspective from the final user. Methods Pilot study, with prospective, longitudinal and analytical cohort. The study lasts from July 2020 until April 2023. The sample is formed by people with disabilities, ages from 2–21, that will participate from the first stage of the process (initial assessment of their abilities and needs) to the final application of outcome measures instruments (with a complete implication during the test of technology). Discussion Only with the active participation of the person is possible to carry out a user-centered approach. This fact will allow us to define and generate technological solutions that really adjust to the expectations, needs and priorities of the people with disabilities, avoiding the AT from being abandoned, with the consequent health and social spending. Trial registration Clinical Trials ID: NCT04723784; https://clinicaltrials.gov/.

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“…While most SARs are expensive commercial platforms adapted for use with assistive objects, they are not accessible to a wide range of people of varying income levels [41,[49][50][51]. However, our assistive robot is a low-cost model specially designed to assist individuals with NDDs in learning and reinforcing ADLs, and is integrated with an AI module for monitoring daily living activities [18].…”

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“…We introduce the novel robotic platform called LOLA2. It is an improved version of our previous assistive platform LOLA [18]. Section 3 details all the technical improvements made.…”

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Assistive Robot with an AI-Based Application for the Reinforcement of Activities of Daily Living: Technical Validation with Users Affected by Neurodevelopmental Disorders

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In this work, we propose the first study of a technical validation of an assistive robotic platform, which has been designed to assist people with neurodevelopmental disorders. The platform is called LOLA2 and it is equipped with an artificial intelligence-based application to reinforce the learning of daily life activities in people with neurodevelopmental problems. LOLA2 has been integrated with an ROS-based navigation system and a user interface for healthcare professionals and their patients to interact with it. Technically, we have been able to embed all these modules into an NVIDIA Jetson Xavier board, as well as an artificial intelligence agent for online action detection (OAD). This OAD approach provides a detailed report on the degree of performance of a set of daily life activities that are being learned or reinforced by users. All the human–robot interaction process to work with users with neurodevelopmental disorders has been designed by a multidisciplinary team. Among its main features are the ability to control the robot with a joystick, a graphical user interface application that shows video tutorials with the activities to reinforce or learn, and the ability to monitor the progress of the users as they complete tasks. The main objective of the assistive robotic platform LOLA2 is to provide a system that allows therapists to track how well the users understand and perform daily tasks. This paper focuses on the technical validation of the proposed platform and its application. To do so, we have carried out a set of tests with four users with neurodevelopmental problems and special physical conditions under the supervision of the corresponding therapeutic personnel. We present detailed results of all interventions with end users, analyzing the usability, effectiveness, and limitations of the proposed technology. During its initial technical validation with real users, LOLA2 was able to detect the actions of users with disabilities with high precision. It was able to distinguish four assigned daily actions with high accuracy, but some actions were more challenging due to the physical limitations of the users. Generally, the presence of the robot in the therapy sessions received excellent feedback from medical professionals as well as patients. Overall, this study demonstrates that our developed robot is capable of assisting and monitoring people with neurodevelopmental disorders in performing their daily living tasks.

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“…Beberapa penelitian dan review tentang Socially-Assistive Robots (SAR) secara umum menunjukkan bahwa anak-anak dengan cerebral palsy kompleks menjadi lebih nyaman dengan SAR dan mulai lebih banyak berinteraksi secara terbuka tanpa campur tangan orang tua mereka (Clark et al, 2019). Di Spanyol, Roberto J. López-Sastre et al (2021) memperkenalkan A low cost Assistive Robot untuk anak-anak dengan gangguan perkembangan saraf, robot ini dilengkapi dengan modul deteksi tindakan online canggih yang mampu memantau tindakan yang dilakukan oleh pengguna (López-Sastre et al, 2021).…”

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Socially-Assistive Robots Using Empathy untuk Mengurangi Nyeri dan Distress selama Pemasangan IV Line Perifer pada Anak

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2021

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Background: Painful medical procedures such as insertion of a peripheral IV line in a child can have long-lasting effects, such as increased sensitivity to future painful stimuli, avoidance of medical treatment, or posttraumatic distress. In nursing science, pain reduction in children can be done by using distraction techniques. In the era of 4.0, the use of robots in helping nurse care is no stranger. Socially-Assistive Robots are a type of social robot that has been used in helping children with ASD, cancer, cerebral palsy and even the elderly. Objective: To provide an overview and ideas from the results of a literature review about the possibility of applying Socially-Assistive Robots Using Empathy to reduce pain and distress during peripheral IV line insertion in children. Discussion: From the results of the study and review of 12 selected journals, it is concluded that Socially-Assistive Robots Using Empathy is a technology that needs to be developed and applied. Recommendation: It is hoped that Socially-Assistive Robots Using Empathy will be present in Indonesia and future researchers can test its effectiveness. Keywords: Socially-Assistive Robots, pain, distress, IV line insertion

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A Low-Cost Assistive Robot for Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders to Aid in Daily Living Activities

Cited by 13 publications

References 53 publications

Assessment and counseling to get the best efficiency and effectiveness of the assistive technology (MATCH): Study protocol

Assessment and counseling to get the best efficiency and effectiveness of the assistive technology (MATCH): Study protocol

Assistive Robot with an AI-Based Application for the Reinforcement of Activities of Daily Living: Technical Validation with Users Affected by Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Socially-Assistive Robots Using Empathy untuk Mengurangi Nyeri dan Distress selama Pemasangan IV Line Perifer pada Anak

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