Active Research Topics in Human Machine Interfaces

McDonald, Michael

doi:10.2172/773841

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“…Systems and machines have increasingly evolved in capacity and functionalities, so now they can assist humans in tasks of higher level of abstraction. The elements that establish a bridge of interaction between human and machine, called interfaces, must establish a dialogue between these identities as user-friendly and efficient as possible [76].…”

Section: Advanced Human-machine Interfacementioning

confidence: 99%

Assistive mobility devices focusing on Smart Walkers: Classification and review

Martins

Santos

Frizera

et al. 2012

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

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In an aging society it is extremely important to develop devices, which can support and aid the elderly in their daily life. This demands means and tools that extend independent living and promote improved health. Thus, the goal of this article is to review the state of the art in the robotic technology for mobility assistive devices for people with mobility disabilities. The important role that robotics can play in mobility assistive devices is presented, as well as the identification and survey of mobility assistive devices subsystems with a particular focus on the walkers technology. The advances in the walkers' field have been enormous and have shown a great potential on helping people with mobility disabilities. Thus it is presented a review of the available literature of walkers and are discussed major advances that have been made and limitations to be overcome.

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Section: Advanced Human-machine Interfacementioning

confidence: 99%

Assistive mobility devices focusing on Smart Walkers: Classification and review

Martins

Santos

Frizera

et al. 2012

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

218

121

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“…It is actuated by 40 compliant "air muscles which allows for the manipulation of soft or fragile objects". In his state-of-the-art review [11], McDonald surveys a wide breadth of Human Machine Interfaces with the declared aim of identifying those "that work right for the people that the robots are built for." The report's conclusions are that a more coordinated effort is needed and added rigor is called for in order to develop adequate human interfaces which will allow intelligent machines to behave and interact with humans in a more humanlike way.…”

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confidence: 99%

Haptic Human Interfaces for Robotic Telemanipulation

Petriu¹,

Payeur²,

Creţu³

2014

IJC

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Recent investigation in haptic man-robot interaction suggests that there are ultimately only two topical tactile feedback generation modalities for haptic human interfaces. These allow the human operator to handle either (i) temporary virtual reality-based material replicas of the local geometric and/or force profile at the contact areas of an unlimited set of generic objects that could virtually be handled during the manipulation, or (ii) permanent material replicas of a limited set of typical objects. In this paper, the two modalities are analyzed and examples of tactile human interfaces developed by the authors for telerobotic blind tactile exploration of objects, and for telerobotic hapto-visual stylus-style tool manipulation are presented to illustrate the proposed approaches. The necessary modelling of the elastic properties of 3D objects from experimental tactile and range imaging data is also presented using a neural network architecture that becomes an important component of the haptic interface.

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“…Systems or machines have increasingly evolved in nature and capacity, so now they can assist humans in tasks of higher level of abstraction. The elements that establish a bridge of interaction between human and machine, called interfaces, must establish a dialogue as natural and efficient as possible [7]. In interfaces, the role of the sensors is very important since they measure the environment and human interaction.…”

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“…Because for g-h filters increasing the value of g diminishes the transient error, so a larger g makes the BBF to track higher frequencies. (6) V. RESULTS For the selection of the g parameter, the Kinematic Estimation Error (KTE) was used (7). KTE evaluates the smoothness, response time, and execution time of a tracking algorithm [22].…”

Section: A Specifications Of the Human-machine Interfacementioning

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A novel human-machine interface for guiding: The NeoASAS smart walker

Martins

Frizera

Urendes

et al. 2012

2012 ISSNIP Biosignals and Biorobotics Conference: Biosignals and Robotics for Better and Safer Living (BRC)

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In an aging society it is extremely important to develop devices, which can support and aid the elderly in their daily life. This demands tools that extend independent living and promote improved health. In this work it is proposed a new interface approach integrated into a walker. This interface is based on a joystick and it is intended to extract the user's movement intentions. The interface is designed to be userfriendly, simple and intuitive, efficient and economic, meeting usability aspects and focused on a commercial implementation, but not being demanding at the user cognitive level. Preliminary sets of experiments were performed which showed the sensibility of the joystick to extract navigation commands from the user. These signals presented a higher frequency component that was attenuated by a Benedict-Bordner g-h filter. The presented methodology offers an effective cancelation of the undesired components from joystick data, allowing the system to extract in real-time voluntary user's navigation commands. Based on this real-time identification of voluntary user's commands, an approach to the control architecture of the robotic walker is being developed, in order to obtain stable and safe user assisted locomotion.

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Active Research Topics in Human Machine Interfaces

Cited by 11 publications

References 169 publications

Assistive mobility devices focusing on Smart Walkers: Classification and review

Assistive mobility devices focusing on Smart Walkers: Classification and review

Haptic Human Interfaces for Robotic Telemanipulation

A novel human-machine interface for guiding: The NeoASAS smart walker

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