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This paper proposes a robot design which combines an unobtrusive presence around the household with a patient rehabilitation tool. The robot is envisaged to spend most of its time in standby mode, springing into action at pre-set times in order to engage the patient into taking a rehabilitation program. The rehabilitation tool guides the patient through a set series of prescribed repetitive physical exercises, provides feedback and keeps track of the patient’s progress, and finally summarises the feedback to a clinician who can supervise exercise uptake and effectiveness. We have achieved proof of this concept on two separate fronts which have been tested separately: an obstacle-avoidance robot which finds (and composes photographs of) people, and a stand-alone piece of software which displays and assesses physiotherapy exercises.
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We are grateful to Prof Glyn Humphrey’s insights on apraxia-related gestures and to Dr Mihaela Duta for system feedback and data collection.
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Voiculescu, I., Cameron, S., Zabarauskas, M., Kozlowski, P. (2016). Towards Robot-Assisted Rehabilitation of Upper Limb Dysfunction. In: Borangiu, T. (eds) Advances in Robot Design and Intelligent Control. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 371. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21290-6_35
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