Bimanual Haptic–Desktop Platform for Upper-limb Post–Stroke Rehabilitation: Practical Trials
This paper presents three haptic–based virtual applications for the undergoing rehabilitation of upper–limb post stroke patients. The three exercises are developed for their use on the multi–modal interface so–called Bimanual Haptic Desktop System (BHDS), which integrates the haptic functionalities and Video Display Terminal (VDT) within the work-plane of a desk. Firstly, two basic exercises, tracking task and lifting task, are carried out for the recovery of basic arm motion–coordination skills and steadiness of patients upper-limb. Secondly, a video–game–like exercise, catching task, is developed to compare online the performance of healthy upper-limb with impaired ones wherein hand-eye coordination exercise of the patient is included. To this end, the proposed exercises provide to patients the potential methods to train their post–stroke upper-limbs malfunctions while reporting the quantitative parameters obtained to evaluate the improvement of patients recovery. Experimental results of a preliminary evaluation on healthy subjects are then reported and discussed to visualize in near future a pilot medical trials of the system on impaired people.
Siqiao Li Antonio Frisoli Carlo Alberto Avizzano Emanuele Ruffaldi Luis I. Lugo–Villeda Massimo Bergamasco
PERCRO Laboratory,Scuola Superiore Sant Anna,via Rinaldo Piaggio,34,56025 - Pontedera (Pisa),Italy
国际会议
2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics(2009 IEEE 机器人与仿生技术国际会议 ROBIO 2009)
桂林
英文
480-485
2009-12-19（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）