Assessment of rehabilitative exercises by humanoid robot

  • Authors:
  • Mikhail Simonov;Gianpiero Delconte

  • Affiliations:
  • ISMB, Turin, Italy;Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This article describes an approach in which the rehabilitative exercise prepared by healthcare professional (human) is encoded as formal knowledge and used by humanoid robot to assist patients in residential settings without involving other care actors. The authors are researching on the new cognitive capability enabling robots to judge about the correctness of the rehabilitative exercise performed by patients following the robot's indications. The proposed method uses the Dynamic Time Warping functionality comparing the correct sequence (encoded in the Knowledge Base) with the human actions being observed by the robot's eyes. The proposed approach is an enabler of better sustainable rehabilitative care services in remote residential settings because of lowering the need of human care.