Robot-Assisted Gait Self-Training: Assessing the Level Achieved
This paper presents the technological status of robot-assisted gait self-training under real clinical environment conditions. A successful rehabilitation after surgery in hip endoprosthetics comprises self-training of the lessons taught by physiotherapists. While doing this, immediate feedback to th...
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doaj-3a27f72e6b5e4db69b5938e3dadd1c812021-09-26T01:23:35ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202021-09-01216213621310.3390/s21186213Robot-Assisted Gait Self-Training: Assessing the Level AchievedAndrea Scheidig0Benjamin Schütz1Thanh Quang Trinh2Alexander Vorndran3Anke Mayfarth4Christian Sternitzke5Eric Röhner6Horst-Michael Gross7Neuroinformatics and Cognitive Robotics Lab, Ilmenau University of Technology, 98684 Ilmenau, GermanyNeuroinformatics and Cognitive Robotics Lab, Ilmenau University of Technology, 98684 Ilmenau, GermanyNeuroinformatics and Cognitive Robotics Lab, Ilmenau University of Technology, 98684 Ilmenau, GermanyNeuroinformatics and Cognitive Robotics Lab, Ilmenau University of Technology, 98684 Ilmenau, GermanyMetraLabs GmbH, 98693 Ilmenau, Germanytediro GmbH, 98693 Ilmenau, GermanyOrthopedic Department of the Waldkliniken Eisenberg, University Hospital Jena, 07607 Eisenberg, GermanyNeuroinformatics and Cognitive Robotics Lab, Ilmenau University of Technology, 98684 Ilmenau, GermanyThis paper presents the technological status of robot-assisted gait self-training under real clinical environment conditions. A successful rehabilitation after surgery in hip endoprosthetics comprises self-training of the lessons taught by physiotherapists. While doing this, immediate feedback to the patient about deviations from the expected physiological gait pattern during training is important. Hence, the Socially Assistive Robot (SAR) developed for this type of training employs task-specific, user-centered navigation and autonomous, real-time gait feature classification techniques to enrich the self-training through companionship and timely corrective feedback. The evaluation of the system took place during user tests in a hospital from the point of view of technical benchmarking, considering the therapists’ and patients’ point of view with regard to training motivation and from the point of view of initial findings on medical efficacy as a prerequisite from an economic perspective. In this paper, the following research questions were primarily considered: Does the level of technology achieved enable autonomous use in everyday clinical practice? Has the gait pattern of patients who used additional robot-assisted gait self-training for several days been changed or improved compared to patients without this training? How does the use of a SAR-based self-training robot affect the motivation of the patients?https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/18/6213robot-assisted gait trainingself-trainingfeedback to the patientautonomous usereal clinical environment conditions |
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Robot-Assisted Gait Self-Training: Assessing the Level Achieved |
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Robot-Assisted Gait Self-Training: Assessing the Level Achieved |
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Robot-Assisted Gait Self-Training: Assessing the Level Achieved |
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robot-assisted gait self-training: assessing the level achieved |
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This paper presents the technological status of robot-assisted gait self-training under real clinical environment conditions. A successful rehabilitation after surgery in hip endoprosthetics comprises self-training of the lessons taught by physiotherapists. While doing this, immediate feedback to the patient about deviations from the expected physiological gait pattern during training is important. Hence, the Socially Assistive Robot (SAR) developed for this type of training employs task-specific, user-centered navigation and autonomous, real-time gait feature classification techniques to enrich the self-training through companionship and timely corrective feedback. The evaluation of the system took place during user tests in a hospital from the point of view of technical benchmarking, considering the therapists’ and patients’ point of view with regard to training motivation and from the point of view of initial findings on medical efficacy as a prerequisite from an economic perspective. In this paper, the following research questions were primarily considered: Does the level of technology achieved enable autonomous use in everyday clinical practice? Has the gait pattern of patients who used additional robot-assisted gait self-training for several days been changed or improved compared to patients without this training? How does the use of a SAR-based self-training robot affect the motivation of the patients? |
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robot-assisted gait training self-training feedback to the patient autonomous use real clinical environment conditions |
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