{"title":"Control of a wheelchair using an adaptive K-Means clustering of head poses","authors":"L. A. Rivera, G. DeSouza, L. D. Franklin","doi":"10.1109/CIRAT.2013.6613819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIRAT.2013.6613819","url":null,"abstract":"Operating a wheelchair is often a difficult task for individuals with severe disabilities. Also, with the progress of the condition, the use of most current robotic assistive technologies becomes less attractive or simply not applicable anymore. In this work, we developed a system that allows a user to operate a wheelchair using only their heads. Our method utilizes an Infrared (IR) depth sensor to capture the user's head pose, while it includes an adaptive component to the detection of that pose. The adaptation, based on a type of Re-enforcement K-Means clustering, can accommodate users with limited and changing head mobility - no matter how skewed the head motion may become with the progress of the condition. We tested the system using five test subjects, who simulated `normal' an `abnormal' motions of the head. The system worked well in all cases, and all test subjects found the interface quite intuitive.","PeriodicalId":348872,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies (CIRAT)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123999131","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}
K. Raizer, E. Rohmer, A. Paraense, Ricardo Ribeiro Gudwin
{"title":"Effects of behavior network as a suggestion system to assist BCI users","authors":"K. Raizer, E. Rohmer, A. Paraense, Ricardo Ribeiro Gudwin","doi":"10.1109/CIRAT.2013.6613821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIRAT.2013.6613821","url":null,"abstract":"This work describes the development of an intelligent agent responsible for making relevant action suggestions to a BCI user in the context of an intelligent environment. For the development of this agent, a modified version of a behavior network, embedded into a neuroscience inspired cognitive architecture, has been implemented. A new soft-preconditions list has been introduced in the original model in order for it to be used as an assistant agent. A number of simulated experiments were performed to evaluate if the behavior network was indeed presenting valuable suggestions and performing as expected. Results suggest that the agent was able to take into account predefined goals, scheduled events and topological information about the environment in order to deliberate over the possible behaviors and make relevant suggestions. A discussion is made about the strong points and drawbacks of this approach and future work is suggested.","PeriodicalId":348872,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies (CIRAT)","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124056827","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":"A biomimetic similarity index for prosthetic hands","authors":"N. M. Kakoty, S. Hazarika","doi":"10.1109/CIRAT.2013.6613820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIRAT.2013.6613820","url":null,"abstract":"Extreme upper limb prosthesis is a well researched problem. There are a number of research prototypes and a few sophisticated commercially launched variants. For a wider acceptance among amputees, prosthetic hands need to be anthropomorphic i.e. replicate the human hand in form and function. However, it is often difficult to compare and rank prosthetic hands on the extent of their being anthropomorphic. The focus of this paper is to evolve a framework for quantification of anthropomorphism for prosthetic hands. Using Formal Concept analysis, a formal context of anthropomorphism is constructed. Within such a context, an index expressing similarity between the prosthetic and the human hand is derived. Following on the lines of the functional similarity metric for design-by-analogy put forward by McAdams and Wood, a formalism to compare different prosthetic hands to a human hand based on a function-vector for each prosthesis expressed in terms of a set of functional and geometric characteristics is presented. Function-vector is characterized within a formal context of anthropomorphism. The Biomimetic Similarity Index (BSI) so computed reflects extent of anthropomorphism and allows a quantitative comparison of different prosthetic hands. Biomimetic design leads to higher anthropomorphism and should result in a higher BSI. We explore the case of TU Bionic Hand and compare the BSI for five different prosthetic hands.","PeriodicalId":348872,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies (CIRAT)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130753069","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}
Yeou-Jiunn Chen, Chia-Jui Chang, J. Wu, Yi-Hui Lin, Hui-Mei Yang
{"title":"Handheld device based personal auditory training system to hearing loss","authors":"Yeou-Jiunn Chen, Chia-Jui Chang, J. Wu, Yi-Hui Lin, Hui-Mei Yang","doi":"10.1109/CIRAT.2013.6613818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIRAT.2013.6613818","url":null,"abstract":"The assistive hearing devices are the only aids to help subjects with hearing loss to use their residual hearing. However, the performance of those devices is closely dependent on auditory training. To develop handheld devices based personal auditory training system with perceptional discrimination analysis and automatic test item generation is very helpful for subjects with hearing loss. Besides, it would ease the burden of speech-language pathologists in developing a personal auditory training. In this study, the mel-frequency cepstrum coefficients and automatic speech recognition are applied to objectively estimate the phonemic confusions. For reducing computational complex, multidimensional scaling is then used to transfer the phonemic confusions into a Euclidean space. Thus, a suitable training material could be automatically generated by simple random process. Finally, the Android based mobile phones are selected as a platform for auditory training. It is convenient for subjects to use the auditory training system. The experimental results show that the average score of mean opinion score is 3.73, which means that the system is very useful.","PeriodicalId":348872,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies (CIRAT)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115538346","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":"Gesture recognition system for wheelchair control using a depth sensor","authors":"N. Kawarazaki, Alejandro Israel Barragan Diaz","doi":"10.1109/CIRAT.2013.6613822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIRAT.2013.6613822","url":null,"abstract":"In usual wheelchair user control the wheelchair using the joystick. However, the user can't control the joystick when the user holds an object by both hands. We have developed a gesture control system of the wheelchair. This system consists of an electric-powered wheelchair with an experimental structure, a depth sensor, and a PC. In our system, the wheelchair moves according to the position of the hand. We use a depth sensor in order to recognize the hand gesture quickly. The proposed system offers a “hands freedom” sense to the user, simplifying their daily activities by using the hands movements as the direction-control input. The effectiveness of our system is clarified by several experimental results.","PeriodicalId":348872,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies (CIRAT)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130106069","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":"Classification of silent speech using adaptive collection","authors":"M. Matsumoto, J. Hori","doi":"10.1109/CIRAT.2013.6613816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIRAT.2013.6613816","url":null,"abstract":"To provide speech prostheses for individuals with severe communication impairments, we investigated a classification method for brain computer interfaces (BCIs) using silent speech. Event-related potentials (ERPs) obtained when four subjects imagined the vocalization of Japanese vowels, /a/, /i/, /u/, /e/, and /o/ in order and in random order while the subjects remained silent and immobilized were recorded using 111 scalp electrodes and 3 reference electrodes. Regarding detection of the imagined voice, some problems occurred by which the related brain geometries and suitable electrodes for classifications differed between subjects. To overcome these problems, we used an adaptive collection that divided ERP data into small elements, performed evaluation relative to the elements, and selected better elements for classification. In earlier reports of studies using the common spatial patterns (CSPs) filter and support vector machines (SVMs), the classification accuracies (CAs) were 56-72% for the pairwise classification /a/ vs. /u/ in the case of 63 channel EEG measurement. In this study, the CA was improved to 73-92% using the adaptive collection. According to the CA, 19 channel measurements were worse than 111 channel measurements, but 63 channel measurements were slightly worse that 111 channel measurements. Using 63 channel measurements, 73% of CA was achieved for all pairwise combinations of the five vowels. The average of the CAs was 85%. These results show that the proposed method exhibited great potential for use in classification of imagined voice for a speech prosthesis controller.","PeriodicalId":348872,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies (CIRAT)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123342668","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}
Longjiang Zhou, K. Ang, C. Wang, K. Phua, Cuntai Guan
{"title":"A novel hand strength assessment method integrated into haptic knob for stroke rehabilitation","authors":"Longjiang Zhou, K. Ang, C. Wang, K. Phua, Cuntai Guan","doi":"10.1109/CIRAT.2013.6613815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIRAT.2013.6613815","url":null,"abstract":"Haptic knob is a robotic assistive tool that allows subjects to open or close their hands, or rotate their arms so as to improve their motor functions after stroke. Current haptic knob uses force sensors to measure the force applied by the subject, which provides an indirect force with high development cost. This paper proposes a method to detect the force applied directly on the haptic knob by measuring the current of the driving motor. An experiment is performed whereby weights are used to apply known forces on the haptic knob in order to establish the relationship between the current of driving motor and the applied force of the subject. The experiment results showed a linear relationship between the applied force and the current of the driving motor. This demonstrated the feasibility of inferring the applied force of a stroke subject on the haptic knob from the current of the driving motor.","PeriodicalId":348872,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies (CIRAT)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114943503","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":"Real-time upper-body detection and orientation estimation via depth cues for assistive technology","authors":"Guang Yang, Mamoru Iwabuchi, Kenryu Nakamura","doi":"10.1109/CIRAT.2013.6613817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CIRAT.2013.6613817","url":null,"abstract":"Automatic and efficient human pose estimation has great practical value in video surveillance. In this paper, we explore how a consumer depth sensor can assist with upper-body detection and pose estimation more precisely in the field of assistive technology for people with disabilities, and a novel real-time upper-body pose (orientation) estimation method is presented. At first, the Haar cascade based upper-body detection is conducted, and the depth information in a fixed subregion is extracted as the input feature vector. Then, support vector machine (SVM) and naive Bayes classifier are compared for estimating the upper-body orientation. Further, in order to acquire the continuous estimation data during a long time for behavioral analysis, we also adopt the support vector regression (SVR) to train a regression model. The experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":348872,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies (CIRAT)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132250575","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}