Towards quantifying dynamic human-human physical interactions for robot assisted stroke therapy.

Journal: IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
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Abstract

Human-Robot Interaction is a prominent field of robotics today. Knowledge of human-human physical interaction can prove vital in creating dynamic physical interactions between human and robots. Most of the current work in studying this interaction has been from a haptic perspective. Through this paper, we present metrics that can be used to identify if a physical interaction occurred between two people using kinematics. We present a simple Activity of Daily Living (ADL) task which involves a simple interaction. We show that we can use these metrics to successfully identify interactions.

Authors

  • Mayumi Mohan
  • Rochelle Mendonca
  • Michelle J Johnson
    Sofiya Lysenko is a research assistant working in Rehabilitation Robotics Lab, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.