O. Lambercy, L. Dovat, Hong Yun, S. Wee, C. Kuah, K. Chua, R. Gassert, T. Milner, C. Teo, E. Burdet
{"title":"Rehabilitation of grasping and forearm pronation/supination with the Haptic Knob","authors":"O. Lambercy, L. Dovat, Hong Yun, S. Wee, C. Kuah, K. Chua, R. Gassert, T. Milner, C. Teo, E. Burdet","doi":"10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209520","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates robot-assisted rehabilitation after stroke using the Haptic Knob, a 2 degree-of-freedom end-effector based robotic device to train grasping and wrist pronation/supination. Nine chronic stroke subjects trained over a period of 6 weeks, with 3 one-hour sessions of robot-assisted therapy per week, consisting of two exercises requiring active participation promoted by therapeutic games. Results of standard clinical assessments demonstrate the positive effects of robot-assisted therapy with the Haptic Knob. Subjects improved by a mean of 4.3 points in the Fugl-Meyer assessment scale, together with a decrease in hand impairments such as abnormal muscle tone frequently observed in stroke subjects. Significant improvements were also observed in motor function of the upper arm as a result of the robot-assisted therapy, suggesting homogeneous improvement of upper limb function as a result of distal training.","PeriodicalId":189213,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics","volume":"310 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115915152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robotic assistance with attitude: A mobility agent for motor function rehabilitation and ambulation support","authors":"J. V. Miró, V. Osswald, M. Patel, G. Dissanayake","doi":"10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209523","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design of an intelligent walking aid for the frail and elderly as well as for patients who are recovering from surgical procedures, in order to enhance safer mobility for these study populations. The device augments a conventional rolling walker aid with sensing and navigational abilities to safely travel through an environment following user's perceived intentions, unless collisions or instability is imminent. The agent, embodied as a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP), critically relies on minimal user input to seamlessly recognise user's short-term intended behaviour, constantly updating this projection to allow for inconspicuous user-robot integration. This, in turn, shifts user's focus from fine motor-skilled control to coarse indications broadly intended to convey intention. Overall, the system can afford an increase in safety for the cognitive user through preventative care - reduced number of falls or collision with surrounding objects, minimising health-care expenses as well as increasing independent living for people with gait disorders. Successful simulation and experimental results demonstrate the validity of the proposed architecture for a practical robotic rollator design.","PeriodicalId":189213,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132031053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intermanual transfer of learning reveals representations in simultaneous extrinsic and intrinsic coordinate systems","authors":"Amit B. Meghani, J. K. Burgess, J. Patton","doi":"10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209532","url":null,"abstract":"Recent research on learning and recovery in rehabilitation has raised questions about the manner in which the nervous system stores and recalls memories of skills learned. This is functionally important when an individual is asked to generalize what was learned to a different movement direction, another part of the workspace, or with the opposite hand. Subjects underwent training in Cartesian force field (Saddle type field) in a training workspace. This experiment built upon other approaches by testing before and after training in a new workspace and with the opposite hand in the presence of both extrinsic (Cartesian-based) and intrinsic (joint-based) force fields. Results show that training led to clearly better performance improvements in the extrinsic coordinate system, and also suggest that subjects are influenced by a joint based force field when they are asked to transfer their knowledge their opposite arm. These results suggest that there are multiple simultaneous representations of the training experience in the nervous system that subjects can recall when asked to generalize. These results may be important to the design of future rehabilitation regimens that optimize the training coordinate systems for the best chances of restoration of function.","PeriodicalId":189213,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132487141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Controlling an automated wheelchair via joystick/head-joystick supported by smart driving assistance","authors":"T. Rofer, C. Mandel, Tim Laue","doi":"10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209506","url":null,"abstract":"With this work, we encourage the application of smart driving assistance algorithms to support the operator of an automated wheelchair in complex navigational situations. On the basis of an empirical study in which eight untrained subjects performed a given course using a conventional joystick and a proportional head-joystick respectively, we are able to prove benefits resulting from the application of a newly developed driving assistance module. Altering the translational and rotational velocities in situations where an obstacle blocks the user-commanded way, the driving assistance module significantly improves driver-performance by preventing all collisions along the way.","PeriodicalId":189213,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130296040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gait and neuromuscular learning effects through the use of a gait monitoring system","authors":"J. Riskowski","doi":"10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209596","url":null,"abstract":"The repetitive nature of walking can lead to joint stress and associated complications due to the rate of loading (ROL) experienced with each step. Previous research suggests that an individual's gait kinematics at initial contact gives rise to the ROL, and a repetitive, high ROL may lead to several disorders, including osteoarthritis. In this study, we investigated the short-term learning effects of using a gait monitoring system to change an individual's gait pattern and reduce the ROL. Twelve healthy women participated in the study, and we analyzed the gait characteristics pre- and post-training with the gait monitoring system. Subjects also underwent a pre-post assessment to explore the short-term changes in proprioceptive acuity that resulted from this type of training. Our results indicate that using a gait monitoring system can effectively change the gait kinematics, leading to a reduced ROL experienced, and can increase proprioceptive acuity. These findings suggest that a gait monitoring system has the potential to decrease the risk of certain joint degenerative diseases, and future long-term studies are needed to explore the gait adaptations that occur through this type of training.","PeriodicalId":189213,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134107230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Ikeuchi, Singo Takiyama, Iha Mamoru, Yukio Saito
{"title":"Discussion of sling control simulation in feedback type Gait Training System","authors":"H. Ikeuchi, Singo Takiyama, Iha Mamoru, Yukio Saito","doi":"10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209569","url":null,"abstract":"Our developing Gait Training System is the training device that tries to obtain the effect similar to the walk training in the warm water swimming pool. A train patient is slung and supported by the slinging system. They walk the force plate top. Slinging it up power is controlled on the basis of the information from the force plates. In this paper, we compare current control system with PID control system. In control simulation, effect of delay time is discussed.","PeriodicalId":189213,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics","volume":"183 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131502438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Validation of a smooth movement model for a human reaching task","authors":"J. Huegel, A. J. Lynch, M. O'Malley","doi":"10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209634","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the experiment design, results, and analysis of a human user study that tests and validates the minimum hand jerk (MHJ) model for a human forearm reaching movement task when manipulating a multi-mass object. This work validates and extends prior work that demonstrated the MHJ criteria, a mathematical approach to human movement modeling, more accurately represents movements with multi-mass objects than the alternate optimally smooth transport (OST) model. To validate the prior work, we developed a visual and haptic virtual environment with a five-mass system with friction connected by springs and viscous dampers. The point to point reaching task we implemented required participants to move their hand with the set of masses to a target position, thereby generating movement profiles for analysis. Our experimental design uniquely extends the application of the MHJ criteria to forearm pronation movements and our results show that the MHJ model holds. Our extension to forearm movements and the more general MHJ criteria are economic models of human movements applicable to fields such as computer animation and virtual environments.","PeriodicalId":189213,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131293632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mechanical designs of active upper-limb exoskeleton robots: State-of-the-art and design difficulties","authors":"R. A. R. C. Gopura, K. Kiguchi","doi":"10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209630","url":null,"abstract":"Active upper-limb exoskeleton robots have been developing from 1960s. In recent years, the mechanical designs and control algorithms of active upper-limb exoskeleton robots were developed significantly. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art of active upper-limb exoskeleton robots that are applied in the areas of rehabilitation and assistive robotics. In addition, the main requirements of the active upper-limb exoskeleton robot are identified and the mechanical designs of existing active upper-limb exoskeleton robot are classified. The design difficulties of an active upper-limb exoskeleton robot are discussed.","PeriodicalId":189213,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115414043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Toth, David Nyitrai, M. Jurak, Istvan Merksz, G. Fazekas, Z. Dénes
{"title":"Safe robot therapy: Adaptation and usability test of a three-position enabling device for use in robot mediated physical therapy of stroke","authors":"A. Toth, David Nyitrai, M. Jurak, Istvan Merksz, G. Fazekas, Z. Dénes","doi":"10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209481","url":null,"abstract":"Safe therapeutic robot systems must be equipped with, among other, safety devices and enabling devices. Enabling devices were developed first for the operators of industrial systems for ensuring the safety thresholds during a short term presence in the safeguarded area. On the contrary, enabling devices for therapy robots must be continuously operated by the patients during the treatment session to permit therapy. The enabling devices used in therapy robotics, and in the broader sense rehabilitation robotics must adhere to different requirements than their industrial versions. The authors review the current legal framework that should be considered during the development of therapy robots. The authors analyze also the safety technologies used in key existing therapy robot systems. The central part of the paper describes the adaptation of an industrial three-position enabling device to the requirements of stroke upper limb therapy. The new device is intended to use with the REHAROB that is a robotic system for upper limb physiotherapy. The usability of the three-position enabling device was tested by 9 healthy volunteers and by 12 hemiparetic subjects with success.","PeriodicalId":189213,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics","volume":"308 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124388793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Y. Tahara, Takayuki Takahashi, K. Takeda, T. Miyoshi, M. Yamaguchi
{"title":"Mental health evaluation using chemical sensor as human-machine interface","authors":"Y. Tahara, Takayuki Takahashi, K. Takeda, T. Miyoshi, M. Yamaguchi","doi":"10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209593","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to evaluate the usefulness of salivary alpha(α)-amylase activity (sAMY) using a chemical sensor as a mental health index in human for a human-machine interface. Seventy healthy subjects were enrolled (12–13 yr). A General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28) and a State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) were conducted as subjective evaluations; from these the all subjects were divided into two groups; high and low stress. High stress group determined from either GHQ-28 or STAI showed significantly higher sAMY than those in low stress group. Multiple regression analysis using sAMY as the dependent variable was applied between sAMY and both mental health indexes. A relationship was found between the high stress group and the sAMY. These results suggested that sAMY is a useful index for screening of healthy subjects not having any particular mental health disease but at risk of developing severe mental health conditions. The chemical sensor of the sAMY might be a useful method as human-machine interface.","PeriodicalId":189213,"journal":{"name":"2009 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116823065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}