DocumentCode :
2447911
Title :
Correct Motion Advice on Rehabilitation Instruction Robot by Superimposing Instructor CG Model
Author :
Yoshino, Kazuyoshi ; Kouda, Masafumi ; Zhang, Shanjun
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Robot. & Mechatron., Kanagawa Inst. of Technol., Atsugi, Japan
fYear :
2012
fDate :
1-3 Nov. 2012
Firstpage :
333
Lastpage :
336
Abstract :
This paper describes a means for advising a correct motion on a rehabilitation instruction robot that instructs a patient the stretching exercises in rehabilitation. Rehabilitation is one of the ways for people to keep and recover physical functions that are needed in daily life. The rehabilitation is generally performed by a physical therapist or an occupational therapist in a hospital or rehabilitation facility. Recently, the number of therapists has been insufficient because the number of elderly people has increased. We have been studying a robot system to help with the instruction of rehabilitation processes. The instruction robot not only can show a patient how to perform an exercise, but also can evaluate the accuracy of the patient´s exercise. In addition, the robot advises the patient how to correct his/her posture if the exercise is incorrect. The rehabilitation instruction robot advises the patient to correct his/her exercises by both the computer-generated voice and the correct exercise shown by the robot. Depending on the contents of rehabilitation exercises, it is difficult to advise a patient in words which body site to correct or how to correct his body site. In this paper, we improve the correct motion advice by superimposing an instructor model created by computer graphics (CG) onto the video image of the patient. Furthermore, the system displays the CG part of the patient body site of the incorrect exercise with a different color. By combining a verbal advice and a visual advice, the system is able to give a patient an easily understandable advice.
Keywords :
computer graphics; medical robotics; patient rehabilitation; video signal processing; computer graphics; computer-generated voice; correct motion advice; elderly people; hospital; occupational therapist; patient video image; physical therapist; rehabilitation facility; rehabilitation instruction robot; robot system; stretching exercises; superimposing instructor CG model; Cameras; Computational modeling; Computers; Robot kinematics; Robot vision systems; Visualization; Image Processing; Instruction Robot; Rahabilitation; Superimposing CG Model;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Networks and Intelligent Systems (ICINIS), 2012 Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tianjin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-3083-1
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICINIS.2012.42
Filename :
6376556
Link To Document :
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