Mechanical design of a new device to assist eating in people with movement disorders

Turgeon, Philippe; Dubé, Michaël; Laliberté, Thierry; Archambault, P.; Flamand, Véronique H.; Routhier, François; Campeau-Lecours, Alexandre

doi:10.1080/10400435.2020.1734111

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“…Damping loads have been shown to attenuate the high-velocity tremor component of movement in patients with cerebellar tremor whilst permitting the slower purposeful portion to proceed relatively unopposed [68]. However, major limitations are the need to fix the device to a chair and tabletop, limiting the potential for tremor to be controlled during ambulation, and that reported efficacies are limited to research laboratories, not real-life settings [69]. Further considerations also relate to the device's applicability to different tremor frequencies and amplitudes as well as its adaptation to various tremor afflicted joints.…”

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Improving functional disability in patients with tremor: A clinical perspective of the efficacies, considerations, and challenges of assistive technology

Bhidayasiri

Maytharakcheep

Phumphid

et al. 2022

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

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Improving functional disability in patients with tremor: A clinical perspective of the efficacies, considerations, and challenges of assistive technology

Bhidayasiri

Maytharakcheep

Phumphid

et al. 2022

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

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“…People living with upper limb disabilities face important challenges to accomplish their Activities of Daily Living (ADL). Over the past years, assistive devices have been developed to improve the autonomy of their users [1][2][3]. Robotics, in conjunction with artificial intelligence, has been seen a key solution to improve the quality of life of people living with physical disabilities.…”

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Efficient Self-Attention Model for Speech Recognition-Based Assistive Robots Control

Poirier

Côté-Allard

Routhier

et al. 2023

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Assistive robots are tools that people living with upper body disabilities can leverage to autonomously perform Activities of Daily Living (ADL). Unfortunately, conventional control methods still rely on low-dimensional, easy-to-implement interfaces such as joysticks that tend to be unintuitive and cumbersome to use. In contrast, vocal commands may represent a viable and intuitive alternative. This work represents an important step toward providing a viable vocal interface for people living with upper limb disabilities by proposing a novel lightweight vocal command recognition system. The proposed model leverages the MobileNet2 architecture, augmenting it with a novel approach to the self-attention mechanism, achieving a new state-of-the-art performance for Keyword Spotting (KWS) on the Google Speech Commands Dataset (GSCD). Moreover, this work presents a new dataset, referred to as the French Speech Commands Dataset (FSCD), comprising 4963 vocal command utterances. Using the GSCD as the source, we used Transfer Learning (TL) to adapt the model to this cross-language task. TL has been shown to significantly improve the model performance on the FSCD. The viability of the proposed approach is further demonstrated through real-life control of a robotic arm by four healthy participants using both the proposed vocal interface and a joystick.

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Usability of mechanical assistive technologies for performing activities involving the upper extremities in individuals with impairments: a systematic review

Atigossou,

Demers,

Paquet

et al. 2024

Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology

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Mechanical design of a new device to assist eating in people with movement disorders

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

Improving functional disability in patients with tremor: A clinical perspective of the efficacies, considerations, and challenges of assistive technology

Improving functional disability in patients with tremor: A clinical perspective of the efficacies, considerations, and challenges of assistive technology

Efficient Self-Attention Model for Speech Recognition-Based Assistive Robots Control

Usability of mechanical assistive technologies for performing activities involving the upper extremities in individuals with impairments: a systematic review

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