ICTs for improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques

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Assessment of rehabilitative exercises by humanoid robot

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2013.252177,
        author={Mikhail Simonov},
        title={Assessment of rehabilitative exercises by humanoid robot},
        proceedings={ICTs for improving Patients Rehabilitation Research Techniques},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={REHAB},
        year={2013},
        month={5},
        keywords={robotics dtw pattern matching rehabilitation ambient assisted living},
        doi={10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2013.252177}
    }
    
  • Mikhail Simonov
    Year: 2013
    Assessment of rehabilitative exercises by humanoid robot
    REHAB
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2013.252177
Mikhail Simonov,*
    *Contact email: simonov@ismb.it

    Abstract

    This article describes an approach in which the rehabilitative exercise prepared by healthcare professional (human) is encoded as formal knowledge and used by humanoid robot to assist patients in residential settings without involving other care actors. The authors are researching on the new cognitive capability enabling robots to judge about the correctness of the rehabilitative exercise performed by patients following the robot’s indications. The proposed method uses the Dynamic Time Warping functionality comparing the correct sequence (encoded in the Knowledge Base) with the human actions being observed by the robot’s eyes. The proposed approach is an enabler of better sustainable rehabilitative care services in remote residential settings because of lowering the need of human care.