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Reliability and Validity of Attitude and Heading Reference System Motion Estimation in a Novel Mirror Therapy System

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In this study, we conducted an experiment for validating a motion estimation system used in novel mirror therapy. The proposed motion estimation system consists of two parts. The first part is motion estimation using attitude and heading reference system sensors. The system attaches a reference frame to a patient to provide flexibility to the patient’s movements. The second part is a compensation algorithm that uses principal component analysis (PCA). Ten subjects performed simple reaching tasks for the validation experiment. The results showed success rate of 89.67% under normal conditions. The PCA-based compensation algorithm increases the success rate from 89.67 to 92.89%. Accurate capturing of healthy arm motion will make effective robot-aided mirror therapy systems feasible.

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This work was funded by the 2012 Seoul National University Brain Fusion Program (Grant Number: 800-20120444) and BK21 Plus Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education (Grant Number: 22A20130011025).

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  1. Interdisciplinary Program for Bioengineering, Graduate School, Seoul National University, Seoul, 110-744, South Korea

    Wonshik Kim, Sukgyu Koh & Yoon Jae Kim

  2. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, 06973, South Korea

    Jaewon Beom

  3. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University College of Engineering, Seoul, 151-742, South Korea

    Chulwoo Park & Youdan Kim

  4. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, 110-744, South Korea

    Sun Gun Chung

  5. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, 110-799, South Korea

    Sungwan Kim

  6. Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, South Korea

    Sungwan Kim

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Kim, W., Beom, J., Park, C. et al. Reliability and Validity of Attitude and Heading Reference System Motion Estimation in a Novel Mirror Therapy System. J. Med. Biol. Eng. 38, 370–377 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40846-017-0315-4

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