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ArticleFrontiers in robotics and AI2022

HR1 Robot: An Assistant for Healthcare Applications.

Valentina Vasco, Alexandre G P Antunes, Vadim Tikhanoff, Ugo Pattacini, Lorenzo Natale, Valerio Gower, Marco Maggiali

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Article in Frontiers in robotics and AI, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Valentina VascoiCub Tech, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genoa, Italy.
Alexandre G P AntunesiCub Tech, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genoa, Italy.
Vadim TikhanoffiCub Tech, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genoa, Italy.
Ugo PattaciniiCub Tech, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genoa, Italy.
Lorenzo NataleHuman Sensing and Perception, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genoa, Italy.
Valerio GowerIRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi, Milan, Italy.
Marco MaggialiiCub Tech, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genoa, Italy.

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Abstract

According to the World Health Organization the percentage of healthcare dependent population, such as elderly and people with disabilities, among others, will increase over the next years. This trend will put a strain on the health and social systems of most countries. The adoption of robots could assist these health systems in responding to this increased demand, particularly in high intensity and repetitive tasks. In a previous work, we compared a Socially Assistive Robot (SAR) with a Virtual Agent (VA) during the execution of a rehabilitation task. The SAR consisted of a humanoid R1 robot, while the Virtual Agent represented its simulated counter-part. In both cases, the agents evaluated the participants' motions and provided verbal feedback. Participants reported higher levels of engagement when training with the SAR. Given that the architecture has been proven to be successful for a rehabilitation task, other sets of repetitive tasks could also take advantage of the platform, such as clinical tests. A commonly performed clinical trial is the Timed Up and Go (TUG), where the patient has to stand up, walk 3 m to a goal line and back, and sit down. To handle this test, we extended the architecture to evaluate lower limbs' motions, follow the participants while continuously interacting with them, and verify that the test is completed successfully. We implemented the scenario in Gazebo, by simulating both participants and the interaction with the robot. A full interactive report is created when the test is over, providing the extracted information to the specialist. We validate the architecture in three different experiments, each with 1,000 trials, using the Gazebo simulation. These experiments evaluate the ability of this architecture to analyse the patient, verify if they are able to complete the TUG test, and the accuracy of the measurements obtained during the test. This work provides the foundations towards more thorough clinical experiments with a large number of participants with a physical platform in the future. The software is publicly available in the assistive-rehab repository and fully documented.

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assistive robotsautonomous systemshealthcarehumanoidshuman-robot interactiontimed up and go

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PMCPMC8860235

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