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It is well-known that walking offers many health benefits for everyone, especially for older people who need to maintain mobility and independence coping with declining of functional capacity. In this paper, we present the design of a humanoid walking trainer that has to monitor and encourage walking in the elderly. This design is based on our target users' preferences. We present as well a preliminary...
Population aging will have an economic and social impact in the near future. We will witness a declining of labor force and an increase of funding support for health care and pension. An active research field is now aiming at improving mobility of the elderly, since the importance of physical exercise for mental and physical health is an established fact. In order to have a user centered design approach,...
In this paper we present an investigation on the clinical applicability of a newly developed control method for wearable lower limbs exoskeleton robots. The method we developed is based on using body joint synergistic effect, with a walking aid cane to estimate and provide assistance on the affected limb(s). The outcome of hemiparetic persons walking with our developed system shows the subjects immediately...
There are a few types of step-climbing wheelchairs in the world, but most of them are large and heavy because they are power-assisted. Therefore, they require large space to maneuver, which is not always feasible with existing house architectures. This study proposes a novel step-climbing wheelchair based on lever propulsion control using human upper limbs. The developed step-climbing wheelchair device...
GaitEcho is a wearable auditory biofeedback device that uses an instrumented ankle-foot orthosis for gait rehabilitation. The authors investigated its feasibility for rehabilitating sighted and blind individuals by employing a reference-tracking task for an ankle-joint exercise. Experimental results suggest that GaitEcho offers similarly adequate functionality (angle controllability, timing controllability,...
Recent studies on autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have reported that positive emotions can be a good incentive for children with ASD to perform spontaneous positive social behaviors. Based on this findings, we propose an affective robot-assisted activity (ARAA) for fostering social interaction and communication skills among children with ASD by promoting their positive emotional responses through...
This paper presents a study using multiple robots with different socially interactive functionalities in a hotel public space. We analyzed the human attitude toward different styles of interactions with robots, and assessed the use of those robots. We conducted comparative experiments in different settings: (i) Two single robots, Palro and Nao, were used separately to detect the presence of guests...
Even for robots delivered with a middleware, end-user implementation of reaction and deliberation remains a difficult task. We proposed Targets Drives Means (TDM), a behavior based architecture which level of abstraction allows behavior specification through declarative association of reusable components. If behavior based robotic has been broadly used in specialized architectures, TDM implemented...
Several methods have been investigated and realized for operation of exoskeleton robots for assistance of human gait. These systems perform motion intention estimation using the bioelectrical signals of muscle activation, body gestures and kinesiological information, or a mixed combination in a hybrid system. For motion intention estimation of the lower limb(s), information of the lower limbs is usually...
In this paper, we introduce several wearable devices, which are able to measure not only posture and kinematics of human being but also physiological signals. Several different devices such as a head orientation sensing, reading facial expression, and breath sensing are presented with the potential applications to assistive technology, rehabilitation and entertainment. A cognitive neuroscience approach...
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