Title :
3D Printed Robotic Glove Useful for Recovery of People Affected by Stroke
Author :
Barbulescu, Mihai ; Musat, Andrei ; Popescu, Decebal
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. Dept., Univ. Politeh. of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Abstract :
One of the inconveniences of recovering after a stoke for patients is that they have to go either to a hospital or to a private clinic in order to follow a rehabilitation exercise program for movement control recovery and nerve reactivation. This paper presents a proof of concept for a portable robotic glove produced by a 3D printer that is controlled by an image processing approach and that is capable to mimic the movements captured by a camera. The developed software uses fuzzy logic to imitate the movements and makes use of open-source code for hand and fingertip detection and tracking based on computer vision.
Keywords :
control engineering computing; medical computing; medical robotics; object detection; object tracking; patient rehabilitation; public domain software; robot vision; 3D printed robotic glove; computer vision; fingertip detection; fingertip tracking; fuzzy logic; hand detection; hand tracking; image processing approach; movement control recovery; nerve reactivation; open-source code; rehabilitation exercise program; stroke patient recovery; Fuzzy logic; Hardware; Image processing; Pulse width modulation; Robots; Software; Three-dimensional displays; 3D printing; computer vision; hand detection; image processing; robotic gloves; strokes;
Conference_Titel :
Control Systems and Computer Science (CSCS), 2015 20th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bucharest
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-1779-2
DOI :
10.1109/CSCS.2015.115
