Automated patient-robot assignment for a robotic rehabilitation gym: a simplified simulation model.
Journal:
Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
Published Date:
Nov 16, 2022
Abstract
BACKGROUND: A robotic rehabilitation gym can be defined as multiple patients training with multiple robots or passive sensorized devices in a group setting. Recent work with such gyms has shown positive rehabilitation outcomes; furthermore, such gyms allow a single therapist to supervise more than one patient, increasing cost-effectiveness. To allow more effective multipatient supervision in future robotic rehabilitation gyms, we propose an automated system that could dynamically assign patients to different robots within a session in order to optimize rehabilitation outcome.