MIT-Skywalker: On the use of a markerless system.

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

This paper describes our efforts to employ the Microsoft Kinect as a low cost vision control system for the MIT-Skywalker, a robotic gait rehabilitation device. The Kinect enables an alternative markerless solution to control the MIT-Skywalker and allows a more user-friendly set-up. A study involving eight healthy subjects and two stroke survivors using the MIT-Skywalker device demonstrates the advantages and challenges of this new proposed approach.

Authors

  • Rogerio S Goncalves
  • Taya Hamilton
  • Hermano I Krebs
    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.