Title :
Unrestraint support robot for elderly gait rehabilitation
Author :
Nokata, Makoto ; Hirai, Wataru
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Robot., Ritsumeikan Univ., Kusatsu, Japan
Abstract :
This paper presents a prototype development of an unrestraint support robot for gait rehabilitation of injured or elderly people. Our developed system consists of a support robot for preventing a trainee from falling with bodily unrestraint. Unrestraint means not atattching markers or sensors on the body, but using an optical sensor for detecting a position of the trainee and a camera for obtaining a condition of walk. We have examined several measurements of stoop motion by use of camera and a software calculating positions of trainee´s head. The results have been agreement with data detected by three dimensional captured images for verification.
Keywords :
biomedical measurement; gait analysis; geriatrics; laser applications in medicine; medical robotics; mobile robots; optical sensors; patient rehabilitation; position measurement; camera; elderly gait rehabilitation; elderly people; injured people; laser sensor; optical sensor; position detection; stoop motion measurements; three dimensional images; unrestraint support robot; Cameras; Motion measurement; Optical detectors; Optical sensors; Position measurement; Prototypes; Rehabilitation robotics; Robot sensing systems; Robot vision systems; Senior citizens;
Conference_Titel :
Rehabilitation Robotics, 2009. ICORR 2009. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto International Conference Center
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3788-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1945-7898
DOI :
10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209560
