Development of intelligent massage manipulator and reconstruction of massage process path using image processing technique

Peng, Chenglin; Hwang, Thong-Shing; Lin, Chin‐Tarng; Wu, Yamei; Chang, Chao-Chi; Huang, Jianbin

doi:10.1109/ramech.2010.5513135

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“…This robot also increased perceived comfort of users, muscle pain management, increased perceived heat, and promoted functional motor recovery (e.g., mouth opening, blood circulation, saliva production, muscle thickness (Koga et al, 2008;Ariji et al, 2009aAriji et al, ,b, 2010Ariji et al, , 2015Ariji et al, , 2016Ishii et al, 2009;Obokawa et al, 2009;Solis et al, 2009;Hiraiwa et al, 2013;Table 8). Other similar robotics projects provided promising results with a drop in lumbar strain, heart rate and muscle activity (Peng et al, 2010;Luo and Chang, 2011;Hu et al, 2013;Table 8). Finally, a robotic massage system achieved attractive performance on relaxation by a respective decrease and increase of beta and alpha powers (Luo et al, 2016;Table 8).…”

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Selective Effects of Manual Massage and Foam Rolling on Perceived Recovery and Performance: Current Knowledge and Future Directions Toward Robotic Massages

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Manual massage and foam rolling are commonly used by athletes for warm-up and recovery, as well as by healthy individuals for well-being. Manual massage is an ancient practice requiring the intervention of an experienced physiotherapist, while foam rolling is a more recent self-administered technique. These two topics have been largely studied in isolation from each other. In the present review, we first provide a deep quantitative literature analysis to gather the beneficial effects of each technique through an integrative account, as well as their psychometric and neurophysiological evaluations. We then conceptually consider the motor control strategies induced by each type of massage. During manual massage, the person remains passive, lying on the massage table, and receives unanticipated manual pressure by the physiotherapist, hence resulting in a retroactive mode of action control with an ongoing central integration of proprioceptive feedback. In contrast, while performing foam rolling, the person directly exerts pressures through voluntary actions to manipulate the massaging tool, therefore through a predominant proactive mode of action control, where operations of forward and inverse modeling do not require sensory feedback. While these opposite modes of action do not seem to offer any compromise, we then discuss whether technological advances and collaborative robots might reconcile proactive and retroactive modes of action control during a massage, and offer new massage perspectives through a stochastic sensorimotor user experience. This transition faculty, from one mode of control to the other, might definitely represent an innovative conceptual approach in terms of human-machine interactions.

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Selective Effects of Manual Massage and Foam Rolling on Perceived Recovery and Performance: Current Knowledge and Future Directions Toward Robotic Massages

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“…1. In order to imitate a real human's palm with finger action and to accomplish the massage process as "pushing, picking-up, and kneading", the most decisive technology is also lying on the design of the fingers [9]. Most of earlier developed robot hands are cable-driven where the actuators are located apart from the hand and control the fingers through a set of cable tendons.…”

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“…Single motor and connecting rod driving is also common used approach [9]. Compared with the motor built-in mechanism, the approach of single motor can reduce the weight of robot hand effectively.…”

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“…The different methods have different effects in the local pain area of human body. From the medical books and literatures [3], we know the Chinese massage can contribute lots of good physiology effects to our bodies, such as following effects: (1) Increasing the flowing influence of blood and lymphoid, (2) Relief muscle pain, (3)Relief pressure, (4) Relief muscle tension and relaxing the muscles, (5) Clearance of the chronic edema, (6)Increasing expandable degree of connective tissue, (7) Increasing the joint movable degree, (8) Increasing flexibility of muscle, (9) Improving the function of the self-disciplined nerve, (10) Improving the function of visceral organ etc..…”

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Development of a Multi-Fingered Massaging Robot Hand

Han¹,

Tian²,

Chen³

2011

AMR

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This paper proposes a multi-fingered robot hand for the application of Chinese massage, which has a long history and is an important part of Chinese medicine. It is very helpful for human body conditioning and therapy. This research is about a new and feasible application of multi-fingered robot hand. The robot hand which has six degree of freedom (6-DOF) realizing 3translation-3 rotation (3T-3R) can automatically do the full massages process including pushing, picking-up and kneading actions to get the best therapy effect. In order to imitate a real human’s hand, we have designed four fingers for the robot hand. A single motor and connecting rod driving are chosen for fingers and closed-loop control is adopted for the robot hand by collecting and processing the signal of encoder and force sensor.

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MiBOT: A head-worn robot that modulates cardiovascular responses through human-like soft massage

Mylaeus,

Vogt,

Demirel

et al. 2024

2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

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Development of intelligent massage manipulator and reconstruction of massage process path using image processing technique

Cited by 5 publications

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Selective Effects of Manual Massage and Foam Rolling on Perceived Recovery and Performance: Current Knowledge and Future Directions Toward Robotic Massages

Selective Effects of Manual Massage and Foam Rolling on Perceived Recovery and Performance: Current Knowledge and Future Directions Toward Robotic Massages

Development of a Multi-Fingered Massaging Robot Hand

MiBOT: A head-worn robot that modulates cardiovascular responses through human-like soft massage

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