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ROREAS: robot coach for walking and orientation training in clinical post-stroke rehabilitation—prototype implementation and evaluation in field trials

ROREAS: robot coach for walking and orientation training in clinical post-stroke... This paper describes the objectives and the state of implementation of the ROREAS project which aims at developing a socially assistive robot coach for walking and orientation training of stroke patients in the clinical rehabilitation. The robot coach is to autonomously accompany the patients during their exercises practicing their mobility skills. This requires strongly user-centered, polite and attentive social navigation and interaction abilities that can motivate the patients to start, continue, and regularly repeat their self-training. The paper gives an overview of the training scenario and describes the constraints and requirements arising from the scenario and the operational environment. Moreover, it presents the mobile robot ROREAS and gives an overview of the robot’s system architecture and the required human- and situation-aware navigation and interaction skills. Finally, it describes our three-stage approach in conducting function and user tests in the clinical environment: pre-tests with technical staff, followed by function tests with clinical staff and user trials with volunteers from the group of stroke patients, and presents the results of these tests conducted so far. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Autonomous Robots Springer Journals

ROREAS: robot coach for walking and orientation training in clinical post-stroke rehabilitation—prototype implementation and evaluation in field trials

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2016 by Springer Science+Business Media New York
Subject
Engineering; Robotics and Automation; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics
ISSN
0929-5593
eISSN
1573-7527
DOI
10.1007/s10514-016-9552-6
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Abstract

This paper describes the objectives and the state of implementation of the ROREAS project which aims at developing a socially assistive robot coach for walking and orientation training of stroke patients in the clinical rehabilitation. The robot coach is to autonomously accompany the patients during their exercises practicing their mobility skills. This requires strongly user-centered, polite and attentive social navigation and interaction abilities that can motivate the patients to start, continue, and regularly repeat their self-training. The paper gives an overview of the training scenario and describes the constraints and requirements arising from the scenario and the operational environment. Moreover, it presents the mobile robot ROREAS and gives an overview of the robot’s system architecture and the required human- and situation-aware navigation and interaction skills. Finally, it describes our three-stage approach in conducting function and user tests in the clinical environment: pre-tests with technical staff, followed by function tests with clinical staff and user trials with volunteers from the group of stroke patients, and presents the results of these tests conducted so far.

Journal

Autonomous RobotsSpringer Journals

Published: Feb 24, 2016

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