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Giving the people with physical disabilities or elderly the possibility of eating unaided is to bring them back a piece of quality of living. In this work, we demonstrated how a vision-based feeding robotic arm prototype can be implemented using hardware and software open source solution. Two important aspects have been identified, 1) this concept is a low-cost solution that is affordable for people with physical disabilities or elderly in low-income countries, and 2) the solution embraces image processing and artificial intelligence technology for the user’s facial landmark detection, which can be used to control the feeding procedure. The result shows that our vision-based feeding robotic arm prototype functions as expected. This concept can be utilized in healthcare section for relieving caregivers’ load on feeding tasks.
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This work is done at Digital Media and Interaction Research Laboratory (DMI), Faculty of Informatics, Burapha University. We are deeply grateful for the grant and supports from Faculty of Informatics.
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Phalaprom, S., Jitngernmadan, P. (2020). iFeedingBot: A Vision-Based Feeding Robotic Arm Prototype Based on Open Source Solution. In: Miesenberger, K., Manduchi, R., Covarrubias Rodriguez, M., Peňáz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12377. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58805-2_53
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