Evaluation of single switch interface with robot arm to help disabled people daily life

Author

Wakita, Yujin ; Yamanobe, Natsuki ; Nagata, Kazuyuki ; Clerc, Mathias

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Adv. Sci. & Technol. (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

Sept. 27 2009-Oct. 2 2009

Firstpage

429

Lastpage

429

Abstract

To support disabled persons with less muscle strength like muscular dystrophy patients, a single switch and a scanning menu panel is introduced to input method for the manipulator control. The iArm manipulator and its simulator are connected to evaluate the input performance. The evaluation task is the handling of pegs on the pegboard with the manipulator. Muscle dystrophy patients tested our interface to control both of the simulator and the real manipulator with a pegboard. The view of the robot control by the subject is shown on the video.

Keywords

diseases; handicapped aids; human-robot interaction; manipulators; medical robotics; middleware; muscle; patient rehabilitation; service robots; user interfaces; RT-middleware software platform; daily life support; disabled person rehabilitation; iArm manipulator simulator; manipulator control; muscle strength; muscular dystrophy patient; pegboard peg handling; robot arm control; scanning menu panel; service robot; single switch interface; video system; Human robot interaction; Intelligent robots; Manipulators; Muscles; Rehabilitation robotics; Robot control; Robot vision systems; Robotics and automation; Switches; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2009. RO-MAN 2009. The 18th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Toyama

ISSN

1944-9445

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5081-7

Electronic_ISBN

1944-9445

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROMAN.2009.5326046

Filename

5326046