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Hybrid Target Selections by "Hand Gestures + Facial Expression" for a Rehabilitation Robot.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
In this study we propose a "hand gesture + face expression" human machine interaction technique, and apply this technique to bedridden rehabilitation robot. "Hand gesture + Facial expression" interactive technology combines the input mode of gesture ...

An Underwater Human-Robot Interaction Using a Visual-Textual Model for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
The marine environment presents a unique set of challenges for human-robot interaction. Communicating with gestures is a common way for interacting between the diver and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). However, underwater gesture recognition i...

Combined robot motor assistance with neural circuit-based virtual reality (NeuCir-VR) lower extremity rehabilitation training in patients after stroke: a study protocol for a single-centre randomised controlled trial.

BMJ open
INTRODUCTION: Improving lower extremity motor function is the focus and difficulty of post-stroke rehabilitation treatment. More recently, robot-assisted and virtual reality (VR) training are commonly used in post-stroke rehabilitation and are consid...

An Embedded Framework for Fully Autonomous Object Manipulation in Robotic-Empowered Assisted Living.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Most of the humanoid social robots currently diffused are designed only for verbal and animated interactions with users, and despite being equipped with two upper arms for interactive animation, they lack object manipulation capabilities. In this pap...

Results of a 2-week novel robotic rehabilitation program in 18 children with prior hemispherectomy.

Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia
BACKGROUND: Partial preservation of sensory and motor functions in the contralateral extremities after hemispherectomy is likely secondary to cortical reorganization of the remaining hemisphere and can be improved by rehabilitation. This study aims t...

Hand Gesture Recognition Using EMG-IMU Signals and Deep Q-Networks.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Hand gesture recognition systems (HGR) based on electromyography signals (EMGs) and inertial measurement unit signals (IMUs) have been studied for different applications in recent years. Most commonly, cutting-edge HGR methods are based on supervised...

Robot-Assisted Rehabilitation Architecture Supported by a Distributed Data Acquisition System.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Rehabilitation robotics aims to facilitate the rehabilitation procedure for patients and physical therapists. This field has a relatively long history dating back to the 1990s; however, their implementation and the standardisation of their applicatio...

Ultrasound Probe and Hand-Eye Calibrations for Robot-Assisted Needle Biopsy.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
In robot-assisted ultrasound-guided needle biopsy, it is essential to conduct calibration of the ultrasound probe and to perform hand-eye calibration of the robot in order to establish a link between intra-operatively acquired ultrasound images and r...

Anthropomorphic Reaching Movement Generating Method for Human-Like Upper Limb Robot.

IEEE transactions on cybernetics
How to generate anthropomorphic reaching movement remains a challenging problem in service robots and human motor function repair/reconstruction equipment. However, there is no universally accepted computational model in the literature for reproducin...

Distributed Pursuit of an Evader With Collision and Obstacle Avoidance.

IEEE transactions on cybernetics
The distributed, real-time algorithms for multiple pursuers cooperating to capture an evader are developed in an obstacle-free and an obstacle-cluttered environment, respectively. The developed algorithm is based on the idea of planning the control a...