Title :
Remote therapy with mouth opening and closing training robot between Tokyo and Yamanashi 120 km
Author :
Takanobu, Hideaki ; Soyama, R. ; Takanishi, Atsuo ; Ohtsuki, Kayoko ; Ozawa, Daisaku ; Ohnishi, Masatoshi ; Okino, Akihisa
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Syst. Eng., Kogakuin Univ., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
This paper describes the remote training between Tokyo and Yamanashi with 6 degrees of freedom (DOF) parallel robot that is designed for the mouth-opening and -closing training. Remote training is useful for the patients who have difficulties to go to hospitals frequently. The authors have developed a master-slave training system using ISDN lines because ISDN is not difficult to come by in patients home. Mouth-opening and -closing training robot WY-5R (Waseda Yamanashi-5 Refined) realized the remote training via two ISDN lines with 128 kbps. As a result of remote therapy using WY-5R, two patients´ mouth-opening and -forward distances increased
Keywords :
manipulators; medical robotics; patient rehabilitation; telemedicine; telerobotics; 128 kbit/s; 6-DOF parallel robot; ISDN lines WY-5R; Japan; Tokyo; Waseda Yamanashi-5 Refined; Yamanashi; master-slave training system; mouth closing; mouth opening; remote therapy; training robot; Hospitals; ISDN; Industrial training; Manipulators; Mechanical systems; Medical treatment; Mouth; Orbital robotics; Parallel robots; Robot sensing systems;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Maui, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6612-3
DOI :
10.1109/IROS.2001.977205
