Autonomous function of wheelchair-mounted robotic manipulators to perform daily activities

IEEE Int Conf Rehabil Robot. 2013 Jun:2013:6650378. doi: 10.1109/ICORR.2013.6650378.

Abstract

Autonomous functions for wheelchair-mounted robotic manipulators (WMRMs) allow a user to focus more on the outcome from the task - for example, eating or drinking, instead of moving robot joints through user interfaces. In this paper, we introduce a novel personal assistive robotic system based on a position-based visual servoing (PBVS) approach. The system was evaluated with a complete drinking task, which included recognizing the location of the drink, picking up the drink from a start location, conveying the drink to the proximity of the user's mouth without spilling, and placing the drink back on the table. For a drink located in front of the wheelchair, the success rate was nearly 100%. Overall, the total time of completing drinking task is within 40 seconds.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Activities of Daily Living
  • Biomechanical Phenomena
  • Disabled Persons / rehabilitation
  • Equipment Design
  • Humans
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Robotics / instrumentation*
  • Robotics / methods*
  • Software
  • User-Computer Interface
  • Wheelchairs / statistics & numerical data*