Evaluation of a robot-assisted rehabilitation system with assist-as- needed and visual error augmentation training methods

Author

Wang, Furui ; Sarkar, Nilanjan ; Barkana, Duygun Erol

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

10-15 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

3555

Lastpage

3560

Abstract

This paper presents the evaluation of a robot-assisted rehabilitation system with assist-as-needed and visual error augmentation training methods. In this robot-assisted rehabilitation system, an assistive controller provides robotic assistance to the participant as and when needed. In addition, the position errors that are visually fed back to the participant are amplified to heighten the participant´s motivation to improve tracking accuracy. Experimental results on unimpaired participants are presented to demonstrate the efficacy of the enhanced rehabilitation robotic system.

Keywords

medical robotics; assist-as-needed; assistive controller; robot-assisted rehabilitation system; visual error augmentation training methods; Electromagnets; Error correction; Force sensors; Intelligent robots; Manipulators; Rehabilitation robotics; Robot sensing systems; Torque; Tracking; USA Councils; assist-as-needed training method; assistive controller; movement tracking training; robot-assisted rehabilitation; visual error augmentation training method;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2009. IROS 2009. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

Conference_Location

St. Louis, MO

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3803-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3804-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IROS.2009.5354615

Filename

5354615