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Dragusanu, Mihai. "Design of Soft–Rigid Devices for Rehabilitative and Assistive Robotics." Doctoral thesis, Università di Siena, 2023. https://hdl.handle.net/11365/1225317.

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The innovation of rehabilitation and assistive technology nowadays is now driven by a double thrust. On one side, the average age of people is increasing as a result of the improved lifestyle in the last twenty years, which focuses on human well-being, consequently, the overall social impact of chronic diseases related to the musculoskeletal and nervous system is becoming relevant. On the other side, technology, spreading more and more now in everyday life, is acquiring an increasingly important role in preserving and ensuring a high quality of life even in the presence of temporary and/or chr

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Iqbal, Muhammad Zubair. "Design of Soft Rigid Devices for Assistive Robotics and Industrial Applications." Doctoral thesis, Università di Siena, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11365/1152251.

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Soft robots are getting more and more popular in rehabilitation and industrial scenarios. They often come into play where the rigid robots fail to perform certain functions. The advantage of using soft robots lies in the fact that they can easily conform to the obstacles and depict delicacy in gripping, manipulating, and controlling deformable and fragile objects without causing them any harm. In rehabilitation scenarios, devices developed on the concept of soft robots are pretty helpful in changing the lives of those who suffer body impairments due to stroke or any other accident. These

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Wilkening, André [Verfasser]. "Assistive Control Concepts for Pneumatic Soft Robotic Rehabilitation Devices / André Wilkening." Aachen : Shaker, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1098042387/34.

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Pathirage, Don Indika Upashantha. "A Brain Robot Interface for Autonomous Activities of Daily Living Tasks." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5292.

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There have been substantial improvements in the area of rehabilitation robotics in the recent past. However, these advances are inaccessible to a large number of people with disabilities who are in most need of such assistance. This group includes people who are in a severely paralyzed state, that they are completely "locked-in" in their own bodies. Such persons usually retain full cognitive abilities, but have no voluntary muscle control. For these persons, a Brain Computer Interface (BCI) is often the only way to communicate with the outside world and/or control an assistive device. One majo

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Dávila, Vilchis Juana Mariel. "MOSAR: A Soft-Assistive Mobilizer for Upper Limb Active Use and Rehabilitation." Tesis de doctorado, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11799/110472.

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In this study, a soft assisted mobilizer called MOSAR from (Mobilizador Suave de Asistencia y Rehabilitación) for upper limb rehabilitation was developed for a 11 years old child with right paretic side. The mobilizer provides a new therapeutic approach to augment his upper limb active use and rehabilitation, by means of exerting elbow (flexion-extension), forearm (pronation-supination) and (flexion-extension along with ulnar-radial deviations) at the wrist. Preliminarily, the design concept of the soft mobilizer was developed through Reverse Engineering of his upper limb: first casting mode

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Capille, John William Jr. "Kinematic and Experimental Evaluation of Commercial Wheelchair-Mounted Robotic Arms." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3569.

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Commercially available wheelchair-mounted robotic arms (WMRAs) are becoming more prevalent internationally but have yet to be largely developed and approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States. The purpose of this study was to experimentally evaluate commercially available WMRAs in a controlled test environment. The goal was to quantitatively compare each device through a standardized testing protocol. The study produced theoretical manipulability measurements as well as efficacy ratings of each device based on Denavit-Hartenberg kinematic parameters and physical testing,

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Gudipati, Radhika. "GENTLE/A : adaptive robotic assistance for upper-limb rehabilitation." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/13895.

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Advanced devices that can assist the therapists to offer rehabilitation are in high demand with the growing rehabilitation needs. The primary requirement from such rehabilitative devices is to reduce the therapist monitoring time. If the training device can autonomously adapt to the performance of the user, it can make the rehabilitation partly self-manageable. Therefore the main goal of our research is to investigate how to make a rehabilitation system more adaptable. The strategy we followed to augment the adaptability of the GENTLE/A robotic system was to (i) identify the parameters that in

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Lee, Brielle. "Development of Intelligent Exoskeleton Grasping Through Sensor Fusion and Slip Detection." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83924.

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This thesis explores the field of hand exoskeleton robotic systems with slip detection and its applications. It presents the design and control of the intelligent sensing and force- feedback exoskeleton robotic (iSAFER) glove to create a system capable of intelligent object grasping initiated by detection of the user’s intentions through motion amplification. Using a combination of sensory feedback streams from the glove, the system has the ability to identify and prevent object slippage, as well as adapting grip geometry to the object properties. The slip detection algorithm provides updated

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Edwards, Kevin D. "Design, construction and testing of a wheelchair-mounted robotic arm." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001276.

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Vivian, Michele. "Studio dell'interazione tra Sistema Muscoloscheletrico Umano e Dispositivi di Assistenza Robotici." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3423948.

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In the latest years, robotic technologies have been increasingly introduced in rehabilitation with the main purpose of reducing the costs and speeding up the recovery process of patients. However, most of the commercial devices impose a pre-programmed trajectory to the limbs of the patients, who therefore behave in a passive way. Another current major limitation is the inability to accurately evaluate the dynamics of the interaction between the patient and the robotic device. This interaction plays a central role in the mutual modulation of human and robot system behavior with respect of their

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Chen, Tiffany L. "Haptic interaction between naive participants and mobile manipulators in the context of healthcare." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/51770.

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Human-scale mobile robots that manipulate objects (mobile manipulators) have the potential to perform a variety of useful roles in healthcare. Many promising roles for robots require physical contact with patients and caregivers, which is fraught with both psychological and physical implications. In this thesis, we used a human factors approach to evaluate system performance and participant responses when potential end users performed a healthcare task involving physical contact with a robot. We performed four human-robot interaction studies with 100 people who were not experts in robotics (na

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Sacchi, Virginia. "L’efficacia della riabilitazione robotica sul recupero della funzionalità dell’arto superiore in soggetti con ictus: revisione sistematica della letteratura." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/24570/.

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Background: L’80% delle persone colpite da ictus cerebrale riporta una compromissione dell’arto superiore che persiste nel 60% dei casi a sei mesi dall’evento acuto. Negli ultimi anni stanno aumentando le evidenze sull'applicazione della terapia robotica. Questa rispetta infatti i principi neurofisiologici dell’apprendimento motorio, sebbene non sia ancora chiara la corretta modalità di associazione con la terapia tradizionale. Obiettivo: Indagare la letteratura riguardo l’efficacia della riabilitazione robotica associata alla fisioterapia tradizionale sul recupero della funzionalità dell’

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LINCE, ANDREA. "ReHand - a portable assistive rehabilitation hand exoskeleton." Doctoral thesis, Politecnico di Torino, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11583/2644376.

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This dissertation presents a synthesis of a novel underactuated exoskeleton (namely ReHand2) thought and designed for a task-oriented rehabilitation and/or for empower the human hand. The first part of this dissertation shows the current context about the robotic rehabilitation with a focus on hand pathologies, which influence the hand capability. The chapter is concluded with the presentation of ReHand2. The second chapter describes the human hand biomechanics. Starting from the definition of human hand anatomy, passing through anthropometric data, to taxonomy on hand grasps and finger con

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Ajulo, Morenike. "Interactive text response for assistive robotics in the home." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/34725.

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In a home environment, there are many tasks that a human may need to accomplish. These activities, which range from picking up a telephone to clearing rooms in the house, all have the common trend of fetching. These tasks can only be completed correctly with the consideration of many things including an understanding of what the human wants, recognition of the correct item from the environment, and manipulation and grasping of the object of interest. The focus of this work is on addressing one aspect of this problem, decomposing an image scene such that a task-specific object of interest can b

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Sleiman, Maya. "New actuation technologies for humanoid robotics and assistive devices." Electronic Thesis or Diss., université Paris-Saclay, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022UPAST110.

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L’actionnement hydraulique a prouvé sacapacité à fournir des forces élevées dans un volume léger et compact. Pour cette raison, plusieurs robots humanoïdes utilisent cette technologie pour démontrer leur performance. Mais, cetactionnement s’accompagne de problèmes de fuiteliés à la présence de tubes hydrauliques. Cettethèse concentre sur la résolution de ce problèmeen adoptant deux approches. Dans la première, lespièces internes sont conçues selon une approchebio-inspirée pour conduire l’huile. Les pièces sontredéveloppées en forme de coquille avec des tubesen plastique intégrés, imprimés en 3

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Lingaria, Dhruvin M. "Assistive voice recognition device for GSM calling using Arduino UNO." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1600584.

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<p>Developing a smart home environment for the assistive living requires great efforts. The key element of the smart environment is the ubiquitous voice user interface with several additional capabilities such as the recognition of several gestures, which can be a new feature of voice controlled devices. There are many identification technologies used in current intelligent guard systems. Relative to other techniques, the voice recognition technology is generally regarded as one of the convenient and safe recognition techniques. The assistive device project has incorporated the technology of v

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Nilsson, Mats. "A Helping Hand : On Innovations for Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Neuronik (Stängd 20130701), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-120142.

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This thesis focuses on assistive and rehabilitation technology for restoring the function of the hand. It presents three different approaches to assistive technology: one in the form of an orthosis, one in the form of a brain-computer interface combined with functional electrical stimulation and finally one totally aiming at rehabilitating the nervous system by restoring brain function using the concept of neuroplasticity. The thesis also includes an epidemiological study based on statistics from the Swedish Hospital Discharge Register and a review on different methods for assessment of hand f

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Jurczyk, Michael Ulrich. "Shape based stereovision assistance in rehabilitation robotics." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2005. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0001084.

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McEachern, Wendy A. "Manipulation strategies for applications in rehabilitation robotics." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.389955.

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Wang, Zhao. "Nonlinear estimation and control for assistive robots." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5089.

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In this thesis, we document the progress in the estimation and control design of a smart assistive robot arm that can provide assistance during activities of daily living to the elderly and/or users with disabilities. Interaction with the environment is made challenging by the kinematic uncertainty in the robot, imperfect sensor calibration, limited view of angle as well as the fact that most activities of daily living are generally required to be performed in unstructured environments. For monocular visual systems, range (or depth) information is always crucial for target modeling and system

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Pilastro, Davide. "Innovative control techniques and strategies for robotics rehabilitation." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3424375.

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The main topics of the Ph.D. project described in this thesis is the rehabilitation robotics, which is, nowadays, a very active field of research, as we are witnessing an increasing demand for rehabilitation therapies. The leading aim of the project is the development of novel control system solutions and tools, which allow and support the use of low-cost rehabilitation robot devices. So doing, it is possible to address main issues related to the provision of robotic therapies, i.e. to make them accessible to a grater number of users and to perform them directly in patients homes. Focused on

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Duncan, Kester. "Scene-Dependent Human Intention Recognition for an Assistive Robotic System." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5009.

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In order for assistive robots to collaborate effectively with humans for completing everyday tasks, they must be endowed with the ability to effectively perceive scenes and more importantly, recognize human intentions. As a result, we present in this dissertation a novel scene-dependent human-robot collaborative system capable of recognizing and learning human intentions based on scene objects, the actions that can be performed on them, and human interaction history. The aim of this system is to reduce the amount of human interactions necessary for communicating tasks to a robot. Accordingly,

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Shukla, Jainendra. "Empowering Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) with Socially Assistive Robotics (SAR) and Emotion Recognition." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/586279.

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Els sistemes assistits per robots per a la rehabilitació cognitiva poden augmentar l'abast dels beneficis potencials de les intervencions psicològiques o psicosocials basades en l'evidència per a persones amb una àmplia gamma de problemes de salut mental. Les investigacions existents a la socially assistive robots (SAR) manquen de validació clínica i, per tant, els metges tenen poca motivació per al seu ús en pràctiques clíniques. A mes, les interaccions entre humans i robots existents no tenen en compte l'estat emocional i la involucració actuals de l'usuari. Les intervencions de rehabilitaci

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Benetazzo, Flavia. "Autonomous assistive mobile robot for person monitoring and interaction." Doctoral thesis, Università Politecnica delle Marche, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11566/243042.

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La robotica assistiva ha l'obiettivo di migliorare la qualità della vita delle persone nella loro quotidianità, con un occhio speciale per coloro che soffrono di disabilità fisiche o cognitive, che possono essere provocate da un incidente, dalla malattia o dal naturale processo di invecchiamento. Robot mobili autonomi possono essere utilizzati come ausili, grazie alla loro capacità di navigare in ambienti non strutturati e reagire ai cambiamenti in esso. Al fine di trasformare un robot mobile in un robot assistivo, il contesto di utilizzo e l'insieme di funzionalità per l'esecuzione devono ess

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Ali, Mazin. "360? View Camera Based Visual Assistive Technology for Contextual Scene Information." Thesis, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10621991.

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<p> In this research project, a system is proposed to aid the visually impaired by providing partial contextual information of the surroundings using 360° view camera combined with deep learning is proposed. The system uses a 360° view camera with a mobile device to capture surrounding scene information and provide contextual information to the user in the form of audio. The system could also be used for other applications such as logo detection which visually impaired users can use for shopping assistance. </p><p> The scene information from the spherical camera feed is classified by

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Perricos, Constantine. "Head gestures as a means of human-computer communication in rehabilitation applications." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362859.

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Prior, Stephen D. "Investigations into the design of a wheelchair-mounted rehabilitation robotic manipulator." Thesis, Middlesex University, 1993. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/13377/.

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This research describes the steps towards the development of a low-cost wheelchair-mounted manipulator for use by the physically disabled and elderly. A detailed review of world rehabilitation robotics research has been conducted, covering fifty-six projects. This identified the main areas of research, their scope and results. From this review, a critical investigation of past and present wheelchair-mounted robotic arm projects was undertaken. This led to the formulation of the key design parameters in a final design specification. The results of a questionnaire survey of fifty electric wheelc

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YIN, ZHE. "serial and parallel robotics: energy saving systems and rehabilitation devices." Doctoral thesis, Politecnico di Torino, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11583/2535295.

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This thesis focuses on the design and discussion of robotic devices and their applications. Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, and application of robots as well as computer systems for their control, sensory feedback, and information processing [1]. Nowadays, robotics has been an unprecedented increase in applications of industry, military, health, domestic service, exploration, commerce, etc. Different applications require robots with different structures and different functions. Robotics normally includes serial and parallel structures.

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Sartori, Massimo. "A Neuromuscular Human-Machine Interface for Applications in Rehabilitation Robotics." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3423216.

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This research work presents a novel neuromusculoskeletal (NMS) model of the human lower limb that is physiologically accurate and computationally fast. The NMS model uses electromyography (EMG) signals recorded from 16 muscles to predict the force developed by 34 musculotendon actuators (MTAs). The operation of each MTA is constrained to simultaneously satisfy the joint moments generated with respect to 4 degrees of freedom (DOF) including: hip adduction-abduction, hip flexion-extension, knee flexion-extesion and ankle dorsi-plantar flexion. Advanced methods are developed to capture the human

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Swaminathan, Ramya. "Assistive force feedback for path following in 3D space for upper limb rehabilitation applications." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002319.

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Oudenhoven, Rik. "Preparing for a sustainable future, with assisted rehabilitation. : How assistive devices can improve the treatment and rehabilitation process of ACL injuries." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Designhögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-152337.

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Abstract The majority of sports injuries involve the lower body, particularly the knees. Roughly 2,5 million people suffer a knee injury each year. Through sudden harsh movements the knee can get damaged. Often, these injuries never truly heal. Once the knee is weakened the risk of injury increases and in many cases the function of the knee will never fully return. The goal of this project was to empower patients who suffer from damage to the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) to recover faster by providing a personalized and humanized rehabilitation plan. Inspiration and Method Interviews, sha

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Papastathis, Ioannis. "Intention Detection and Arm Kinematic Control in Soft Robotic Medical Assistive Device." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för teknik och hälsa (STH), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-173499.

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Aging in humans is often associated with reduced muscle strength and difficulty in elevating the arm and sustaining it at a certain position. The aim of this master thesis is to propose a number of technical solutions integrated into a complete electronic system which can be used to support the user's muscle capacity and partially resist gravitational load. An electronic system consisting of sensors, a control unit and an actuator has been developed. The system is able to detect the user's motion intention based on an angle detection algorithm and perform kinematic control over the user's arm

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Rode, Sonia. "Inclusive and Accessible Workplaces: AI- and Robotics-Based Assistive Technologies for Professionals with High-Functioning Autism." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-447221.

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Although every society member should be offered an equal chance to participate in working life, individuals with high-functioning autism encounter many barriers. Here, assistive technologies using AI and robotics can provide new possibilities to create accessibility and inclusion. This thesis followed the methodology of user-centred design by performing an online survey with 48 autistic professionals to understand their current work experiences and attitudes towards AI- and robotics-based assistive technologies. Based on the survey findings, neurotypical participants from different educational

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Gosine, Raymond Gerard. "An interactive robotic workstation for applications in rehabilitation." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334039.

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Park, Hae Won. "Robot learners: interactive instance-based learning with social robots." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/53442.

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On one hand, academic and industrial researchers have been developing and deploying robots that are used as educational tutors, mediators, and motivational tools. On the other hand, an increasing amount of interest has been placed on non-expert users being able to program robots intuitively, which has led to promising research efforts in the fields of machine learning and human-robot interaction. This dissertation focuses on bridging the gap between the two subfields of robotics to provide personalized experience for the users during educational, entertainment, and therapeutic sessions with so

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Yachnin, David. "Technology-Assisted Toilets: An Assistive Technology for Improving Hygiene and Independence in the Bathroom." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36569.

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Purpose: Toileting is an activity of daily living that is often difficult to perform independently for rehabilitation patients, which can be detrimental to the patient’s self-esteem and hygiene. Technology-Assisted Toilets (TATs) are commercially-available toilet seats which clean the user with a stream of water, and have a fan for drying. TATs are operated by a wall-mounted remote control. This thesis investigated whether TATs could improve stroke and geriatric rehabilitation patients’ ability to clean themselves independently after a bowel movement, and improve psychosocial outcomes when toi

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Brooks, Douglas A. "Towards quantifying upper-arm rehabilitation metrics for children through interaction with a humanoid robot." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/48970.

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The objective of this research effort is to further rehabilitation techniques for children by developing and validating the core technologies needed to integrate therapy instruction with child-robot play interaction in order to improve upper-arm rehabilitation. Using computer vision techniques such as Motion History Imaging (MHI), Multimodal Mean, edge detection, and Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC), movements can be quantified through robot observation. Also incorporating three-dimensional data obtained via an infrared projector coupled with a Principle Component Analysis (PCA), depth informa

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Chauhan, Raghuraj Jitendra. "Towards Naturalistic Exoskeleton Glove Control for Rehabilitation and Assistance." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/104113.

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This thesis presents both a control scheme for naturalistic control of an exoskeleton glove and a glove design. Exoskeleton development has been focused primarily on design, improving soft actuator and cable-driven systems, with only limited focus on intelligent control. There is a need for control that is not limited to position or force reference signals and is user-driven. By implementing a motion amplification controller to increase weak movements of an impaired individual, a finger joint trajectory can be observed and used to predict their grasping intention. The motion amplification func

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Banala, Sai Kumar. "Lower extremity exoskeletons for gait rehabilitation of motor-impaired patients." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 204 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1456297091&sid=5&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Conti, Daniela. "Robotics and intellectual disabilities: models and treatment." Doctoral thesis, Università di Catania, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10761/3818.

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Public perception of an emerging scientific and technological product is important for the acceptance of such a product. Ethical studies based on public surveys toward using robots in eldercare and other applications, showed a high acceptance for pet-like therapeutic robot, the human-like care robot, and a surveillance care robot. However, it also reported a rejection in the case of a bathing robot because of the judgment that the robot-based action would be inferior to the human-based action and that it would take away jobs from human workers. Taking into account this scenario, chapter IV (4.

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White, Mel. "Information Seeking Behaviors in a Population of Assistive Mobility Device Users." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799517/.

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The author explores the current state of information exchange and access in the procurement process for mobility assistive equipment. While the idealized model is of a linear process starting with a need and ending with the purchase, in practice the procedures for acquiring a device such as a wheelchair or electric scooter can be a time consuming task that involves client, family, medical care specialists, vendors, manufacturers, insurance companies and possibly alternate sources of funding. This study utilized Participatory Action Research (PAR) to collect both qualitative and quantitative da

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Melis, Ellen H. "Biomechanical study of the interaction between ambulatory assistive devices and spinal cord injured subjects gait-trained with functional electrical stimulation." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22859.

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External forces exerted on ambulatory assistive devices by spinal cord injured subjects gait-trained with functional electrical stimulation were measured during a twelve-week period to determine the contribution of devices to gait. Impulse, applied force, and contact time quantified the propulsive, restraining, supporting and stabilizing functions of devices and lower extremities. Peak axial force on devices and ground reaction force on lower limbs reached between 30 to 40 and 88 to 100 percent of subjects' total body weight respectively. Variables assessed varied with the gait pattern and ass

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Rezazadegan, Fahimeh. "Human action recognition and prediction for robotics applications." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/127283/1/__qut.edu.au_Documents_StaffHome_StaffGroupH%24_halla_Desktop_Fahimeh_Rezazadegan_Thesis.pdf.

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This study is a step forward in developing two different methods; one recognises human actions in an unbiased environment, the other predicts the next human action. The proposed methods that are based on deep learning, convolutional neural networks and long-short term memories, work regardless of camera motion, viewpoint variation, and irrelevant background context. The key outcome of this research is to enable an assistive robot to help a human peer performing an assembly task, using the proposed algorithms.

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Shah, Nauman. "Designing motivational games for robot-mediated stroke rehabilitation." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/17193.

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The repetitive and sometimes mundane nature of conventional rehabilitation therapy provides an ideal opportunity for development of interactive and challenging therapeutic games that have the potential to engage and motivate the players. Different game design techniques can be used to design rehabilitation games that work alongside robotics to provide an augmentative therapy to stroke patients in order to increase their compliance and motivation towards therapy. The strategy we followed to develop such a system was to (i) identify the key design parameters that can influence compliance, prolon

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Sushko, John. "Asymmetric Passive Dynamic Walker Used to Examine Gait Rehabilitation Methods." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3373.

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Testing gait rehabilitation devices on humans can be a difficult task, due to the effects of the neurological controls of the human body. This thesis advances the use of a passive dynamic walker (PDW) tuned to have asymmetric gait patterns similar to those with physical impairments to test rehabilitation devices. A passive dynamic walker is a multipendulum system that has a stable gait pattern when walking down a slope without any energy inputs except the forces due to gravity. A PDW model is better suited for testing rehabilitation devices because it has been shown to resemble human gait and

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Morris, Melissa. "Robot Control for Remote Ophthalmology and Pediatric Physical Rehabilitation." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3350.

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The development of a robotic slit-lamp for remote ophthalmology is the primary purpose of this work. In addition to novel mechanical designs and implementation, it was also a goal to develop a control system that was flexible enough to be adapted with minimal user adjustment to various styles and configurations of slit-lamps. The system was developed with intentions of commercialization, so common hardware was used for all components to minimize the costs. In order to improve performance using this low-cost hardware, investigations were made to attempt to achieve better performance by applying

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Pike, Frankie. "Low Cost NueroChairs." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2012. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/887.

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Electroencephalography (EEG) was formerly confined to clinical and research settings with the necessary hardware costing thousands of dollars. In the last five years a number of companies have produced simple electroencephalograms, priced below $300 and available direct to consumers. These have stirred the imaginations of enthusiasts and brought the prospects of "thought-controlled" devices ever closer to reality. While these new devices were largely targeted at video games and toys, active research on enabling people suffering from debilitating diseases to control wheelchairs was being pur

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Kim, Nam-Hun. "Quantification and analysis of hand grasp dynamics and arm reaching kinematics following hemiparesis using a novel assistive robotics approach." 2007. http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.13477.

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(7954217), Hao Xiong. "Development of Learning Control Strategies for a Cable-Driven Device Assisting a Human Joint." Thesis, 2019.

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<div>There are millions of individuals in the world who currently experience limited mobility as a result of aging, stroke, injuries to the brain or spinal cord, and certain neurological diseases. Robotic Assistive Devices (RADs) have shown superiority in helping people with limited mobility by providing physical movement assistance. However, RADs currently existing on the market for people with limited mobility are still far from intelligent.</div><div><br></div><div>Learning control strategies are developed in this study to make a Cable-Driven Assistive Device (CDAD) intelligent in assisting

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Stegman, Kelly J. "Towards detection of user-intended tendon motion with pulsed-wave Doppler ultrasound for assistive hand exoskeleton applications." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1699.

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Current bio-robotic assistive devices have developed into intelligent and dexterous machines. However, the sophistication of these wearable devices still remains limited by the inherent difficulty in controlling them by sensing user-intention. Even the most commonly used sensing method, which detects the electrical activity of skeletal muscles, offer limited information for multi-function control. An alternative bio-sensing strategy is needed to allow for the assistive device to bear more complex functionalities. In this thesis, a different sensing approach is introduced using Pulsed-Wave Dop

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