Intelligent Assistive Exoskeleton with Vision Based Interface

  • Authors:
  • Malek Baklouti;Eric Monacelli;Vincent Guitteny;Serge Couvet

  • Affiliations:
  • Thales, Security Solutions and services, Cergy-Pointoise Cedex, France;Thales, Security Solutions and services, Cergy-Pointoise Cedex, France;Thales, Security Solutions and services, Cergy-Pointoise Cedex, France;Thales, Security Solutions and services, Cergy-Pointoise Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • ICOST '08 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper presents an intelligent assistive robotic system for people suffering from myopathy. In this context, we are developing a 4 DoF assistive exoskeletal orthosis for the upper limb. A special attention is made toward Human Machine Interaction (HMI). We propose the use of visual sensing as interface able to convert user head gesture and mouth expression into a suitable control command. In that way, a non-intrusive cameras control is particularly adapted to disabled people. Moreover, we propose to robustify the command with a visual context analysis component.In this paper, we will first describe the problematic and the designed mechanical system. Next, we will describe the two approaches developed for visual sensing interface: head control and mouth expression control. Finally, we introduce the context detection for scene understanding.