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Design and Development of a Robotic Platform Based on Virtual Reality Scenarios and Wearable Sensors for Upper Limb Rehabilitation and Visuomotor Coordination

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Abstract

The work reintegration following shoulder biomechanical overload illness is a multidimensional process, especially for those tasks requiring strength, movement control and arm dexterity. Currently different robotic devices used for upper limb rehabilitation are available on the market, but these devices are not based on activities focused on the work reintegration. Furthermore, the rehabilitation programmes aimed to the work reintegration are insufficiently focused on the recovery of the necessary skills for the re-employment.

In this study the details of the design of an innovative robotic platform integrated with wearable sensors and virtual reality scenarios for upper limbs motor rehabilitation and visuomotor coordination is presented. The design of control strategy will also be introduced. The robotic platform is based on a robotic arm characterized by seven degrees of freedom and by an adaptive control, wearable sensorized insoles, virtual reality (VR) scenarios and the Leap Motion device to track the hand gestures during the rehabilitation training. Future works will address the application of deep learning techniques for the analysis of the acquired big amount of data in order to automatically adapt both the difficulty level of the VR serious games and amount of motor assistance provided by the robot.

Keywords

  • Robotic devices
  • Wearable sensors
  • Virtual reality
  • Upper limb rehabilitation
  • Pattern recognition
  • Deep learning

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Acknowledgments

This study has been funded by Istituto Nazionale per l’Assicurazione contro gli Infortuni sul Lavoro (INAIL) under the framework of Bando BRiC INAIL 2016 (project ROBOVIR).

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  1. The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

    Stefano Mazzoleni & Elena Battini

  2. Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (DEI), Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy

    Domenico Buongiorno & Vitoantonio Bevilacqua

  3. Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

    Daniele Giansanti, Mauro Grigioni & Giovanni Maccioni

  4. UOC Recupero e Rieducazione Funzionale, Ospedale Versilia, Azienda USL Toscana Nord-Ovest, Lido di Camaiore, Lucca, Italy

    Federico Posteraro

  5. Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Epidemiology and Hygiene, INAIL, Rome, Italy

    Francesco Draicchio

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Mazzoleni, S. et al. (2019). Design and Development of a Robotic Platform Based on Virtual Reality Scenarios and Wearable Sensors for Upper Limb Rehabilitation and Visuomotor Coordination. In: Huang, DS., Huang, ZK., Hussain, A. (eds) Intelligent Computing Methodologies. ICIC 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11645. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26766-7_64

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