Single-Switch User Interface for Robot Arm to Help Disabled People Using RT-Middleware

Wakita, Yujin; Yamanobe, Natsuki; Nagata, Kazuyuki; Ōno, Eiichi

doi:10.1155/2011/528425

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“…Before beginning the human ergonomics experiments, we confirmed that RAPUDA could handle all of the objects in the above list under experimental conditions. RAPUDA has a single switch and an auto scan panel as its user interface [14]. With this interface, people with muscle dystrophy can easily control RAPUDA ( Figure 10).…”

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User evaluation of service robotic arms based on ICF through interviews with people with upper-limb disability

Wakita

Oyama

Yoon

et al. 2013

2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)

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The iArm is a service robot arm to help people with upper-limb disability in their daily lives. The iArm has been produced for about 10 years in the Netherlands. The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology has developed RAPUDA (Robotic Arm for Persons with Upper-limb DisAbility). The effectiveness of the RAPUDA was evaluated by conducting ergonomics experiments. We analyze the effectiveness of the robot arm in daily life through interviews with iArm users living in the Netherlands and with the participants in the human ergonomics experiments of RAPUDA. Effectiveness will be evaluated by the ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health).

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Section: B Participants In Rapuda Human Ergonomics Experimentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

User evaluation of service robotic arms based on ICF through interviews with people with upper-limb disability

Wakita

Oyama

Yoon

et al. 2013

2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO)

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“…Upper-limb disAbilities) is a novel robotic arm with linear mechanism developed at AIST. By utilizing the RAPUDA, we have demonstrated that a bottle of water can be picked up from a table and taken to the mouth using a simple joystick or single-switch interfaces [23]. However, the representation of the specification such as "RAPUDA is capable of bringing a bottle of water from a table to a mouth.…”

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Development of Assistive Robots Using International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health: Concept, Applications, and Issues

Tanaka

Yoshikawa

Oyama

et al. 2013

Journal of Robotics

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Many assistive robots for elderly and disabled people have been developed in the past few decades. However, very few of them became commercially available. The major cause of the problem is that the cost-benefit ratio and the risk-benefit ratio of them are not good or not known. The evaluation of them should be done in the light of the impacts of assistive technologies on users’ whole life, both in short-term and long-term. In this paper, we propose a framework of evaluation and design of assistive robots using ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health). The goal of the framework is the realization of the life design and the improvement of the quality of life using assistive technologies. We describe the concept of utilizing ICF in the development process of assistive robots, and demonstrate its utility by using some examples of practical application such as the analysis of daily living, the design of assistive robots and the evaluation of assistive robots. We also show the issues of using ICF for further development of the framework.

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“…Many assistive technologies have been developed to assist people with DASH to interact with the environment. The related studies supporting DASH have focused on the automation of objects for their mobility [1]. These include replacement technologies such as an exoskeleton, robotic arms or a prosthetic arm are among the common solutions for assisting people with DASH [2].…”

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Gesture Interfacing for People With Disability of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (Dash) for Smart Door Control: Goms Analysis

Azmi

Yusof

Chiew

et al. 2019

MJCS

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People with disabilities may interact with their environment differently from other human beings. This is also the case with people with the disability of the arm, shoulder and hand (DASH). However, most environments do not include supportive design for DASH. This study aimed to explore and analyze the body parts used by people with DASH to open doors in a real-world environment and to find an efficient interface design for people with DASH to open doors through a computer interface. This study was conducted in three parts: interviews of three people with DASH, observation of the videos of people with DASH opening doors, and GOMS analysis of five designed interfaces for people with DASH to open doors/windows through a computer interface. It was found that head gesture was suitable to be used as an interaction medium and through the GOMS analysis that the Type 5 (every task has a different head gesture movement) and Type 3 (positioning heads at different vertical or horizontal positions) are two most efficient designed interfaces for head gesture with regards to opening a door.

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Single-Switch User Interface for Robot Arm to Help Disabled People Using RT-Middleware

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

User evaluation of service robotic arms based on ICF through interviews with people with upper-limb disability

User evaluation of service robotic arms based on ICF through interviews with people with upper-limb disability

Development of Assistive Robots Using International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health: Concept, Applications, and Issues

Gesture Interfacing for People With Disability of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (Dash) for Smart Door Control: Goms Analysis

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