Children’s Rehabilitation with Humanoid Robots and Wearable Inertial Measurement Units

Özgür, Arzu Güneysu; Arnrich, Bert; Ersoy, Cem

doi:10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2015.259273

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“…Specifically considering upper-limb rehabilitation systems, existing solutions can be divided into stationary systems, which typically envision the user to interact with a system acting within a fixed workspace [6], [7], and wearable/portable systems, for which the workspace is defined relative to the user [8]- [10]. An interesting "third way" is the one we proposed with the Cellulo-based tangible Pacman upper limb rehabilitation game [11], which combines the typical setup of stationary solutions (commonly adopted in therapy and therefore familiar to the users) with the ease-of-use of portable systems.…”

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Design of Dynamic Tangible Workspaces for Games: Application on Robot-Assisted Upper Limb Rehabilitation

Özgür

Bruno

Taburet

et al. 2020

2020 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

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A key element for the success of any game is its ability to produce a different experience at each round, thus keeping the player engagement high. This is particularly important for those games that also have a serious objective, such as gamified rehabilitation systems, aiming at encouraging patients in performing home rehabilitation exercises. In all cases, a game element which is typically static is the workspace, i.e. the "floor" upon which the game takes place. This is especially true for robot-assisted rehabilitation games, where the workspace must satisfy the requirements given by the robot's locomotion and localization systems, as well as the patient's exercise motion requirements.In this article we present a simple yet effective solution for designing dynamic and customizable tangible workspaces, which relies on hexagonal tiles and our previously proposed Cellulo localization system. These "hextiles" can be easily tangibly rearranged at each game round to yield a desired workspace shape and configuration, allowing tabletop mobile robots to move continuously within each new workspace. We ground our solution in the context of robot-assisted rehabilitation, where high adaptability is crucial for the efficacy of the solution, and propose a dynamic extension of our "tangible Pacman" rehabilitation game.Experiments show that the proposed solution allows for adaptation in range of motions, exercise types, physical and cognitive difficulty, besides reducing repetitiveness.

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Design of Dynamic Tangible Workspaces for Games: Application on Robot-Assisted Upper Limb Rehabilitation

Özgür

Bruno

Taburet

et al. 2020

2020 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

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Physical Education Exercises Validation Through Child-Humanoid Robot Interaction

Knežević,

Radmilović,

Borojević

et al. 2023

Mechanisms and Machine Science

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Variability Analysis of Therapeutic Movements using Wearable Inertial Sensors

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A variability analysis of upper limb therapeutic movements using wearable inertial sensors is presented. Five healthy young adults were asked to perform a set of movements using two sensors placed on the upper arm and forearm. Reference data were obtained from three therapists. The goal of the study is to determine an intra and inter-group difference between a number of given movements performed by young people with respect to the movements of therapists. This effort is directed toward studying other groups characterized by motion impairments, and it is relevant to obtain a quantified measure of the quality of movement of a patient to follow his/her recovery. The sensor signals were processed by applying two approaches, time-domain features and similarity distance between each pair of signals. The data analysis was divided into classification and variability using features and distances calculated previously. The classification analysis was made to determine if the movements performed by the test subjects of both groups are distinguishable among them. The variability analysis was conducted to measure the similarity of the movements. According to the results, the flexion/extension movement had a high intra-group variability. In addition, meaningful information were provided in terms of change of velocity and rotational motions for each individual.

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Children’s Rehabilitation with Humanoid Robots and Wearable Inertial Measurement Units

Cited by 7 publications

References 8 publications

Design of Dynamic Tangible Workspaces for Games: Application on Robot-Assisted Upper Limb Rehabilitation

Design of Dynamic Tangible Workspaces for Games: Application on Robot-Assisted Upper Limb Rehabilitation

Physical Education Exercises Validation Through Child-Humanoid Robot Interaction

Variability Analysis of Therapeutic Movements using Wearable Inertial Sensors

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