Telerehabilitation via a mobile robot

Author

Labonté, Daniel ; Michaud, Francois ; Cloutier, Richard ; Roux, Marc-Andre ; Létourneau, Dominic ; Lauria, Michael ; Boissy, Patrick

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Eng., Univ. de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC

fYear

2008

fDate

25-27 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

62

Lastpage

62

Abstract

Teleoperated from a distant location, a mobile robot with some autonomous capabilities can become a beneficial tool in telerehabilitation applications. Safety being of prime concern in such settings, we took special care in coming up with the proper teleoperation interfaces that can provide pertinent information about the system states and conditions (objects, persons, free space, data, etc.) in conjunction with an efficient control system. In order to enhancement operatorpsilas performances we tested our new robot with three modalities of visual information presentation in the teleoperation interfaces, with the use of virtual reality for operator interfaces, in a setup reproducing home like environment.

Keywords

medical control systems; mobile robots; patient rehabilitation; safety; telemedicine; telerobotics; user interfaces; virtual reality; autonomous mobile robot; home like environment; operator performance enhancement; teleoperation interface; telerehabilitation application safety; virtual reality; visual information presentation; Aging; Context modeling; Intelligent robots; Medical services; Mobile robots; Navigation; Robotics and automation; Safety; Senior citizens; Virtual reality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Virtual Rehabilitation, 2008

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2700-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2701-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICVR.2008.4625125

Filename

4625125