HELIOS: The human machine interface for MARSE robot

Author

Ferrer, S.B. ; Ochoa-Luna, C. ; Rahman, Md Hafizur ; Saad, Maarouf ; Archambault, Philippe S.

Author_Institution

Ecole de Technol. Super. (ETS), Montréal, QC, Canada

fYear

2013

fDate

6-8 June 2013

Firstpage

117

Lastpage

122

Abstract

This paper presents preliminary results of the HELIOS software, a human machine interface developed to drive a wearable robot (MARSE) to provide rehabilitation therapy to the patients having impaired upper limb functions. The software was designed to increase the attractiveness of using the MARSE with a simple interface, which is easy to handle and allows visualization of a set of practical exercises used by clinicians/therapists. To evaluate the usability of the HELIOS experiments involving healthy male subjects were performed with the MARSE robot.

Keywords

health care; human computer interaction; medical computing; medical robotics; patient rehabilitation; patient treatment; HELIOS software; MARSE robot; human machine interface; impaired upper limb functions; rehabilitation therapy; wearable robot; Active appearance model; Joints; Medical treatment; Protocols; Software; Trajectory; ETS-MARSE; Human Machine Interface; Rehabilitation; Rehabilitation therapy; Robot-aided therapy; Stroke; Upper-Limb; Virtual environment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Human System Interaction (HSI), 2013 The 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sopot

ISSN

2158-2246

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5635-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HSI.2013.6577811

Filename

6577811