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‘VRComponent’: A Virtual Reality Software for Neuro-Rehabilitation with Robotics Technologies

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Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II

Part of the book series: Biosystems & Biorobotics ((BIOSYSROB,volume 15))

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Autonomous robots that are interfaced with virtual or augmented reality gaming are increasingly being developed to provide repetitive intensive practice to promote increased compliance and facilitate better outcomes in neurorehabilitation therapies. These therapist robots, equipped with a set of sensors and actuators for monitorizing the environment, allows health professionals to supervise the recovery of patients with serious disability. In this paper, a new system for supervising neuro-rehabilitation therapies using autonomous robots is presented. The therapy explained in this work is based on a set of virtual reality games developed by using robotics technologies, such as RGB-D camera and depth image processing. Three different virtual reality games have been developed in the application to gain better outcomes during the therapy, each one focuses on a typical exercise: ‘Touch the apple’, ‘Follow the path’ and ‘Imitate the dance’. Both, the virtual reality games and the main robotics technologies for their development, are explained in this paper.

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Acknowledgments

This work has been partially supported by the MICINN Project TIN2015-65686-C5-5-R, by the Extremadura Goberment project GR15120.

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  1. Robotics and Artificial Vision group (ROBOLAB), University of Extremadura, Avda Universidad s/n, 10071, Cáceres, Spain

    Christopher Ávila, Luis Manso, Pablo Bustos Garcia de Castro & Pedro Núñez

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Correspondence to Pedro Núñez .

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  1. Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

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  2. Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

    José González-Vargas

  3. Avda. de la Universidad s/n, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche Avda. de la Universidad s/n, Elche, Spain

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  4. Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, Houston, USA

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  5. Cajal Institute, Spanish National Research Council Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

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Ávila, C., Manso, L., de Castro, P.B.G., Núñez, P. (2017). ‘VRComponent’: A Virtual Reality Software for Neuro-Rehabilitation with Robotics Technologies. In: Ibáñez, J., González-Vargas, J., Azorín, J., Akay, M., Pons, J. (eds) Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46669-9_217

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