AIMC Topic: Activities of Daily Living

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Integration of Forearm sEMG Signals with IMU Sensors for Trajectory Planning and Control of Assistive Robotic Arm.

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Patients with issues such as cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, and multiple sclerosis have difficulties with activities of daily living (ADL). Their abilities to perform tasks can be improved through vigorous physical therapy. When that therapy is ...

Machine Learning based Physical Human-Robot Interaction for Walking Support of Frail People.

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In the near future robots will permeate our daily life empowering human beings in several activities of daily living. Particular, service robots could actively support indoor mobility tasks thus to enhance the independent living of citizens. They sho...

Bed-Exit Prediction Applying Neural Network Combining Bed Position Detection and Patient Posture Estimation.

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The work of a nurse involves tasks that can lead to serious accidents with a single mistake or miss, and thus nurses are exposed to high stress. In particular, injections, pre-medications, tube connections, and falling are factors that lead to seriou...

Building robust models for Human Activity Recognition from raw accelerometers data using Gated Recurrent Units and Long Short Term Memory Neural Networks.

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Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a growing field of research in biomedical engineering and it has many potential applications in the treatment and prevention of several diseases. Due to the recent advancement in technology, devices that collect po...

Visualizing Inertial Data For Wearable Sensor Based Daily Life Activity Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Network.

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Nowadays human activity recognition (HAR) plays an crucial role in the healthcare and wellness domains, for example, HAR contributes to context-aware systems like elder home assistance and care as a core technology. Despite promising performance in t...

Robot Learning of Assistive Manipulation Tasks by Demonstration via Head Gesture-based Interface.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Assistive robotic manipulators have the potential to support the lives of people suffering from severe motor impairments. They can support individuals with disabilities to independently perform daily living activities, such as drinking, eating, manip...

Prototype Measuring Device for Assessing Interaction Forces between Human Limbs and Rehabilitation Robots - A Proof of Concept Study.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Rehabilitation robots can provide high intensity and dosage training or assist patients in activities of daily living and decrease physical strain on clinicians. However, the physical human robot interaction poses a major safety issue, as the close p...

Texture Discrimination using a Soft Biomimetic Finger for Prosthetic Applications.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Soft robotic fingers have shown great potential for use in prostheses due to their inherent compliant, light, and dexterous nature. Recent advancements in sensor technology for soft robotic systems showcase their ability to perceive and respond to st...

Multidimensional Capacitive Sensing for Robot-Assisted Dressing and Bathing.

IEEE ... International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics : [proceedings]
Robotic assistance presents an opportunity to benefit the lives of many people with physical disabilities, yet accurately sensing the human body and tracking human motion remain difficult for robots. We present a multidimensional capacitive sensing t...