Analysis and prediction of meal motion by EMG signals

Abstract

The lack of carers for senior citizens and physically handicapped persons in our country has now become a huge issue and has created a great need for carer robots. The usual carer robots (many of which have switches or joysticks for their interfaces), however, are neither easy to use it nor very popular. Therefore, haptic devices have been adopted for a human-machine interface that will enable an intuitive operation. At this point, a method is being tested that seeks to prevent a wrong operation from occurring from the user's signals. This method matches motions with EMG signals.

The adoption of care robots in home care—A survey on the attitudes of Finnish home care personnel

“…Among these tasks, fall detection and the prevention of accidents are important in home care (Bedaf et al., ; Kristoffersson et al., ; Lattanzio et al., ), and the older people themselves feel that care robots are most useful specifically for providing emergency assistance (Mast et al., ). Second, to promote independent living, the older people need help with practical home care (Bedaf et al., ; Horihata, Iwahara, & Yano, ; Shiomi, Iio, Kamei, Sharma, & Hagita, ). This may also involve older people with cognitive impairment who need assistance in, for example, finding their belongings (Wu et al., ) and being reminded about things (Granata et al., ; Inoue et al., ).…”