Robotics for health care: a review of the literature

Kassler, Michael

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“…Various studies have discussed the importance of automation and robotics in care facilities [8]. The earliest noticeable discussion was by Kassler [9], where the potential of robots in assisting and giving services to users was envisioned as the next era for health care. This resulted in the development of multiple scenarios in which robots provide various services to help patients [1], [3].…”

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CARE: Cooperation of ai Robot Enablers to Create a Vibrant Society

Ravankar

Tafrishi

Luces

et al. 2023

IEEE Robot. Automat. Mag.

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emographic changes in our society are putting a heavy burden on care facilities and health-care infrastructure. While the elderly population is steadily increasing, there is an acute shortage of caregiving experts and professionals. This problem is becoming more severe in superaging societies, namely, Japan. Hence, this urges new and practical solutions for welfare facilities to mitigate the burden on caregivers and human supporting partners by introducing robotics assistance through information and communication technology (ICT). In this work, we present a new multirobot cooperation and coordination framework at different intellectual computation levels for care facilities. The framework is developed to bring the health-care 4.0 concept one step closer to reality, under the ongoing project "Moonshot Research & Development, " in Japan. First, we present an Internet of Things (IoT) integration system that is designed to include different passive and active assistive robots. Then, we redesign robot systems and develop a semiautonomous platform that can perform tasks based on user/patient interaction in real-world care facility scenarios. Our framework provides human-robot interaction under shared autonomy between the user and assisting robots to improve the efficacy of the users in everyday tasks. Tohoku University's new state-of-the-art Living Lab facility is used to prepare a real-world scenario, where we present our experimental results. We also discuss the open problems in future care and human assistance aspects.

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CARE: Cooperation of ai Robot Enablers to Create a Vibrant Society

Ravankar

Tafrishi

Luces

et al. 2023

IEEE Robot. Automat. Mag.

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“…For example, popular opinion holds that robotic technologies are only applied to individuals when they are disabled [10]. However, there is a small yet increasing awareness that robotic technologies can also complement current health care service provision by monitoring older people within their home environment [11] and assisting them to mobilise safely and prevent falls [12]. Narrative literature reviews on the role of robotics in health care [8, 11–13] or social assistance robots [14] have previously been completed mainly speculating about the future of robotics in health.…”

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Robotics to Enable Older Adults to Remain Living at Home

Pearce

Adair

Miller

et al. 2012

Journal of Aging Research

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Given the rapidly ageing population, interest is growing in robots to enable older people to remain living at home. We conducted a systematic review and critical evaluation of the scientific literature, from 1990 to the present, on the use of robots in aged care. The key research questions were as follows: (1) what is the range of robotic devices available to enable older people to remain mobile, independent, and safe? and, (2) what is the evidence demonstrating that robotic devices are effective in enabling independent living in community dwelling older people? Following database searches for relevant literature an initial yield of 161 articles was obtained. Titles and abstracts of articles were then reviewed by 2 independent people to determine suitability for inclusion. Forty-two articles met the criteria for question 1. Of these, 4 articles met the criteria for question 2. Results showed that robotics is currently available to assist older healthy people and people with disabilities to remain independent and to monitor their safety and social connectedness. Most studies were conducted in laboratories and hospital clinics. Currently limited evidence demonstrates that robots can be used to enable people to remain living at home, although this is an emerging smart technology that is rapidly evolving.

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“…The intensity of practice plays an important role in motor recovery for stroke patients based on the experience from the conventional therapy in stroke rehabilitation and the motor learning theory [50]. Compared with conventional therapy, robotic rehabilitation 10 therapy can provide safe and high-intensity rehabilitation to patients with mild to severe impairments after stroke [51]. Recent studies have shown the benefits of robotic rehabilitation therapy on the upper-limb movement of patients in the acute phase of recovery after stroke.…”

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Design and Development of a Twisted String Exoskeleton Robot for the Upper Limb

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Design and Development of a Twisted String Exoskeleton Robot for the Upper Limb Lei Jiang High-intensity and task-specific upper-limb treatment of active, highly repetitive movements are the effective approaches for patients with motor disorders. However, with the severe shortage of medical service in the United States and the fact that post-stroke survivors can continue to incur significant financial costs, patients often choose not to return to the hospital or clinic for complete recovery. Therefore, robot-assisted therapy can be considered as an alternative rehabilitation approach because the similar or better results as the patients who receive intensive conventional therapy offered by professional physicians. The primary objective of this study was to design and fabricate an effective mobile assistive robotic system that can provide stroke patients shoulder and elbow assistance. To reduce the size of actuators and to minimize the weight that needs to be carried by users, two sets of dual twisted-string actuators, each with 7 strands (1 neutral and 6 effective) were used to extend/contract the adopted strings to drive the rotational movements of shoulder and elbow joints through a Bowden cable mechanism. Furthermore, movements of non-disabled people were captured as templates of training trajectories to provide effective rehabilitation. The specific aims of this study included the development of a two-degree-of-freedom prototype for the elbow and shoulder joints, an adaptive robust control algorithm with cross-coupling dynamics that can compensate for both nonlinear factors of the system and asynchronization between individual actuators as well as an approach for extracting the reference trajectories for the assistive robotic from non-disabled people based on Microsoft Kinect sensor and Dynamic time warping algorithm. Finally, the data acquisition and control system of the robot was implemented by Intel Galileo and XILINX FPGA embedded system.

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Robotics for health care: a review of the literature

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Robotics to Enable Older Adults to Remain Living at Home

Design and Development of a Twisted String Exoskeleton Robot for the Upper Limb

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