3D Printed Robotic Glove Useful for Recovery of People Affected by Stroke

Author

Barbulescu, Mihai ; Musat, Andrei ; Popescu, Decebal

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., Univ. Politeh. of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

fYear

2015

fDate

27-29 May 2015

Firstpage

833

Lastpage

837

Abstract

One of the inconveniences of recovering after a stoke for patients is that they have to go either to a hospital or to a private clinic in order to follow a rehabilitation exercise program for movement control recovery and nerve reactivation. This paper presents a proof of concept for a portable robotic glove produced by a 3D printer that is controlled by an image processing approach and that is capable to mimic the movements captured by a camera. The developed software uses fuzzy logic to imitate the movements and makes use of open-source code for hand and fingertip detection and tracking based on computer vision.

Keywords

control engineering computing; medical computing; medical robotics; object detection; object tracking; patient rehabilitation; public domain software; robot vision; 3D printed robotic glove; computer vision; fingertip detection; fingertip tracking; fuzzy logic; hand detection; hand tracking; image processing approach; movement control recovery; nerve reactivation; open-source code; rehabilitation exercise program; stroke patient recovery; Fuzzy logic; Hardware; Image processing; Pulse width modulation; Robots; Software; Three-dimensional displays; 3D printing; computer vision; hand detection; image processing; robotic gloves; strokes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS), 2015 20th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bucharest

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1779-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSCS.2015.115

Filename

7168522