Robotic Platforms for Assistance to People with Disabilities

People with congenital and/or acquired disabilities constitute a great number of dependents today. Robotic platforms to help people with disabilities are being developed with the aim of providing both rehabilitation treatment and assistance to improve their quality of life. A high demand for robotic...

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description People with congenital and/or acquired disabilities constitute a great number of dependents today. Robotic platforms to help people with disabilities are being developed with the aim of providing both rehabilitation treatment and assistance to improve their quality of life. A high demand for robotic platforms that provide assistance during rehabilitation is expected because of the health status of the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has resulted in countries facing major challenges to ensure the health and autonomy of their disabled population. Robotic platforms are necessary to ensure assistance and rehabilitation for disabled people in the current global situation. The capacity of robotic platforms in this area must be continuously improved to benefit the healthcare sector in terms of chronic disease prevention, assistance, and autonomy. For this reason, research about human–robot interaction in these robotic assistance environments must grow and advance because this topic demands sensitive and intelligent robotic platforms that are equipped with complex sensory systems, high handling functionalities, safe control strategies, and intelligent computer vision algorithms. This Special Issue has published eight papers covering recent advances in the field of robotic platforms to assist disabled people in daily or clinical environments. The papers address innovative solutions in this field, including affordable assistive robotics devices, new techniques in computer vision for intelligent and safe human–robot interaction, and advances in mobile manipulators for assistive tasks.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-809742024-04-01T23:19:23Z Robotic Platforms for Assistance to People with Disabilities Jara, Carlos A. Corrales Ramón, Juan Antonio sensors electronic platform machine learning wearables hand motor rehabilitation sEMG hand pose social robot physical human-robot interaction assistive robotics collaborative robots brain–machine interfaces EEG exoskeleton motor imagery human–robot interaction human pose estimation robotic rehabilitation visually impaired assistance navigation system knowledge graph dialogue system NLP reasoning multimodal interfaces robotic exoskeleton n/a thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues People with congenital and/or acquired disabilities constitute a great number of dependents today. Robotic platforms to help people with disabilities are being developed with the aim of providing both rehabilitation treatment and assistance to improve their quality of life. A high demand for robotic platforms that provide assistance during rehabilitation is expected because of the health status of the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has resulted in countries facing major challenges to ensure the health and autonomy of their disabled population. Robotic platforms are necessary to ensure assistance and rehabilitation for disabled people in the current global situation. The capacity of robotic platforms in this area must be continuously improved to benefit the healthcare sector in terms of chronic disease prevention, assistance, and autonomy. For this reason, research about human–robot interaction in these robotic assistance environments must grow and advance because this topic demands sensitive and intelligent robotic platforms that are equipped with complex sensory systems, high handling functionalities, safe control strategies, and intelligent computer vision algorithms. This Special Issue has published eight papers covering recent advances in the field of robotic platforms to assist disabled people in daily or clinical environments. The papers address innovative solutions in this field, including affordable assistive robotics devices, new techniques in computer vision for intelligent and safe human–robot interaction, and advances in mobile manipulators for assistive tasks. 2022-05-06T11:19:14Z 2022-05-06T11:19:14Z 2022 book ONIX_20220506_9783036536774_40 9783036536774 9783036536781 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/80974 eng image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/5314 https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/5314 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-0365-3678-1 10.3390/books978-3-0365-3678-1 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783036536774 9783036536781 130 Basel open access
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machine learning
wearables
hand motor rehabilitation
sEMG
hand pose
social robot
physical human-robot interaction
assistive robotics
collaborative robots
brain–machine interfaces
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exoskeleton
motor imagery
human–robot interaction
human pose estimation
robotic rehabilitation
visually impaired assistance
navigation system
knowledge graph
dialogue system
NLP
reasoning
multimodal interfaces
robotic exoskeleton
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues
Robotic Platforms for Assistance to People with Disabilities
title Robotic Platforms for Assistance to People with Disabilities
title_full Robotic Platforms for Assistance to People with Disabilities
title_fullStr Robotic Platforms for Assistance to People with Disabilities
title_full_unstemmed Robotic Platforms for Assistance to People with Disabilities
title_short Robotic Platforms for Assistance to People with Disabilities
title_sort robotic platforms for assistance to people with disabilities
topic sensors
electronic platform
machine learning
wearables
hand motor rehabilitation
sEMG
hand pose
social robot
physical human-robot interaction
assistive robotics
collaborative robots
brain–machine interfaces
EEG
exoskeleton
motor imagery
human–robot interaction
human pose estimation
robotic rehabilitation
visually impaired assistance
navigation system
knowledge graph
dialogue system
NLP
reasoning
multimodal interfaces
robotic exoskeleton
n/a
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues
topic_facet sensors
electronic platform
machine learning
wearables
hand motor rehabilitation
sEMG
hand pose
social robot
physical human-robot interaction
assistive robotics
collaborative robots
brain–machine interfaces
EEG
exoskeleton
motor imagery
human–robot interaction
human pose estimation
robotic rehabilitation
visually impaired assistance
navigation system
knowledge graph
dialogue system
NLP
reasoning
multimodal interfaces
robotic exoskeleton
n/a
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues
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