Rehabilitation robotics in Europe

Dallaway, John L.; Jackson, Robin; Timmers, Paul

doi:10.1109/86.372890

Cited by 72 publications

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“…Multiple Master Multiple Slave (M3S) is a communication strategy especially designed for functional integration of home-installed rehabilitation devices. The M3S specification started as a TIDE Project [139], [140], and later it was developed as an open standard (available for free). M3S allows users to assemble a specific complete modular system and to extend or modify the system later in a plug-and-play manner.…”

Section: Devices For Information Exchangementioning

confidence: 99%

The smart house for older persons and persons with physical disabilities: structure, technology arrangements, and perspectives

Stefanov

Bien

Bang

2004

IEEE Trans. Neural Syst. Rehabil. Eng.

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Abstract-Smart houses are considered a good alternative for the independent life of older persons and persons with disabilities. Numerous intelligent devices, embedded into the home environment, can provide the resident with both movement assistance and 24-h health monitoring. Modern home-installed systems tend to be not only physically versatile in functionality but also emotionally human-friendly, i.e., they may be able to perform their functions without disturbing the user and without causing him/her any pain, inconvenience, or movement restriction, instead possibly providing him/her with comfort and pleasure. Through an extensive survey, this paper analyzes the building blocks of smart houses, with particular attention paid to the health monitoring subsystem as an important component, by addressing the basic requirements of various sensors implemented from both research and clinical perspectives. The paper will then discuss some important issues of the future development of an intelligent residential space with a human-friendly health monitoring functional system. Index Terms-Health monitoring, intelligent house, smart house, wearable sensor.

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Section: Devices For Information Exchangementioning

confidence: 99%

The smart house for older persons and persons with physical disabilities: structure, technology arrangements, and perspectives

Stefanov

Bien

Bang

2004

IEEE Trans. Neural Syst. Rehabil. Eng.

306

120

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“…The first step in the evolution of rehabilitation robots was the development of fixed workstation systems that could execute pre-programmed tasks, like picking up paper from a printer or taking a book from a bookshelf. Quite popular systems of this category are DeVAR ( Van der Loos, 1995;Mokhtari & Amni, 2001), ProVAR (Wagner et al, 1998;Van der Loos et al, 1999), RAID (Dallaway & Jackson , 1993;Eftring, 1994), MASTER-RAID II (Dallaway et al, 1995;Busnel et al, 1999;Mokhtari & Amni, 2001) or CAPDI (Casals et al, 1999). All these systems have in common that they consist of an industrial robot that is mounted at a workstation.…”

Section: Evolution Of Rehabilitation Robotsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A possible approach to encounter the above mentioned problems is to develop fully autonomous and mobile assistants, which are able to execute tasks on a high level of abstraction. Example systems of this category are MOVAR ( Van der Loos, 1995), URMAD (Innocenti et al, 1994), MOVAID (Dallaway et al, 1995), WALKY (Bolmsjö & Neveryd, 1995) or Care-O-Bot (May & Schäffer, 1999). All these systems consist of a mobile platform with a manipulator mounted on it.…”

Section: Evolution Of Rehabilitation Robotsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Rehabilitation Robots FRIEND-I & II: Daily Life Independency through Semi-Autonomous Task-Execution

Martens¹,

Prenzel²,

Gräser³

2007

Rehabilitation Robotics

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“…We note that mobile robots usually operate at floor level and their operating space can often be considered as two dimensional, thus greatly simplifying their design problems. Level 3 is a very active research area, covering mobility issues, especially autonomous wheelchairs, and also rehabilitation and exercise robots [21,6]. In this paper we address issues concerning devices on level 2, which has seen relatively less research activity than the other levels.…”

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Design issues for assistive robotics for the elderly

Meng

Lee

2006

Advanced Engineering Informatics

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The worldwide population of elderly people is growing rapidly and in the coming decades the proportion of older people in the developed countries will change significantly. This demographic shift will create a huge increase in demand for domestic and health-care services and this in turn has the potential to create a major new market for domestic service robots that can assist with the care and support of the elderly and infirm. However, unlike industrial robots, assistive service robots are still under-developed and are not widely deployed. We analyze the nature of the requirements for assistive robotics for the elderly and argue that traditional "industrial" robot engineering approaches are either inappropriate or inadequate to tackle the key problem areas, which we identify as: safety, adaptivity, long-term autonomy of operation, user-friendliness and low costs.A key issue is user acceptability and this paper explores how seemingly difficult and possibly conflicting design requirements can be integrated in a human-centred approach. We develop an approach to the design of autonomous assistive robots for the home, with emphasis on the user and the tasks to be performed. We then introduce some design principles and apply these to a simplified case study. The case study was implemented as a concrete illustration, and a series of experiments are reported.The demonstration shows, (a) how existing software techniques can be combined in a synthesis that satisfies several key design ideas, (b) how a software architecture can provide a flexible and extensible substrate for the integration of the design, and (c) how this approach can be sensitive to the concept of user "empathy" that is characteristic of these applications.By highlighting significant design issues and suggesting different approaches, we hope assistive robotics will be better able to address the novel demands of assistive applications in health-care situations.

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Rehabilitation robotics in Europe

Cited by 72 publications

References 4 publications

The smart house for older persons and persons with physical disabilities: structure, technology arrangements, and perspectives

The smart house for older persons and persons with physical disabilities: structure, technology arrangements, and perspectives

The Rehabilitation Robots FRIEND-I & II: Daily Life Independency through Semi-Autonomous Task-Execution

Design issues for assistive robotics for the elderly

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