重度障害者のための口腔内コントローラーの開発

Restoration from to person is how a relative of a severely disabled patient defined rehabilitation; and an important element is choice.1 Many people we see in the role do not believe enough in themselves to act, says Cochrane, and he mentions two essential qualities for those working in rehabilitation ?the ability to restore confidence when it has been weakened by reproach and disadvantage and the diligence to uncover talents that are obscure and to burnish them.2 As someone said to me, Maximise every conceivable ability?rehabilitation is thinking wide and thinking sensitively. Beyond this, autonomy?the kind of choice and control over one's life that adults normally have?and oppor? tunity describe what many severely disabled people are striving for. Of course, many people severely disabled with neurological conditions are in no position to exercise autonomy; some others do not really want to, and many feel threatened by all the talk about independent living. Staff used to traditional concepts of care may also have a sense of confusion and conflict about their roles, A further conflict may arise as workers in rehabilitation become more aware of how much improvement is possible even in apparently irrecoverable conditions, while social workers and sociologists on the other hand eschew the model and any paternalistic approach. At the same time many people live in residential homes, and for that matter in their own homes, quite untouched by ideas of either rehabilitation or autonomy. My impression from the visits I have made, the people I have met, and the conferences I have attended is that with this kind of vision the different philosophies and approaches all have their place in catering for the multitude of different needs and personalities; the problem is that so often the right resources do not get to the right people or that efforts go off at half cock for want of adequate resources or adequate thought. In this article and the next I discuss rehabilitation in the context of care of younger disabled people (defined as those aged 16-64 years), looking at the extent of the medical role and at ways of helping people to achieve the best possible quality of life.

Many assistive technologies implemented to help the disabled people. The purpose of this research is to design and implement a new mechanism for disabled people which can be used as a helping hand. Generally, disabled people depend on others to live their lives. Our target is to make a robotic system that has different characteristics to help the physically challenged people. The robot will be able to move in any direction. An open-source Android application is used to control the robot via Bluetooth. The robot responds to move commands in the forward, backward, left, and right directions. A disabled person, especially those who cannot walk will be able to send this robot anywhere. The project also implements a robotic arm with pick and place capability. It is able to pick any object and carry it and place it to the required position. The robotic arm is designed such that it can be controlled by a number of different mechanisms, namely a smartphone as the remote control, or human voice command or an RF controller. Disabled people can use any one of these methods according to his or her comfort. The robot also uses an IP camera for video observation as well as video communication with others.

Home automation, through computers, electronics, and telecommunications, is at the service of people with disability in terms of security, comfort, and social bonding. It is based on the ability to interact remotely with the house's equipment, which makes it "Smart". Thus, the fact of being able to activate equipment without moving by utilizing voice or a remote control allows reducing movements and therefore retain a certain autonomy.

The Crisis of Disability Is Violence

1220 RFIDを用いた重度障害者用リモートコントローラーの開発 : 試作機の性能評価と有効性の検討(OS12-5 生体センシングと治療関連技術,オーガナイズドセッション:12 人間・生物・植物等に関するエンジニアリングの研究)

In recent years, the issue of how to support the disabled people to live independently above and beyond care services and facilities become important. One of those solutions has the method using the manipulator. The most of manipulators were fastened to a wheelchair in conventional research which have spatial and activity constraints. We have developed Ritsumei-Safe Daily Cooperator (R-SaDaCo), a dual arm manipulator that can be separated from and combined with a wheelchair. The main aim of this robot is to reduce the total amount of care by other people. However, remote control of R-SaDaCo has a problem. It is how to control it without training the operation. In this research, we develop a system of remote control for R-SaDaCo. In this system, sensors are used to measure the natural movement of the user. The user operates R-SaDaCo by using data provided from the sensors. The user experiment is performed to evaluate the effectiveness of this system. As a result, this system is suitable to remote-control R-SaDaCo.

For different purposes, a service robot that can be controlled remotely will play a significant role in the expansion of robotics automation systems. In the developing countries like Bangladesh, everyone is concerned about safety from both natural and human-made situations like Disposal of Bombs, rescuing objects from dangerous places, a useful assistant for handicapped people. In this paper, we propose to make a Robotic Car (RC) which helps to enter an environment of higher risks, grab and move to an appropriate place. For developing this generic model, Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ is used as the central control unit for the robot. Six Degree of Freedom (DOF) Arm is used to compute as the main factor for grabbing the objects. Radio Frequency (RF) transmitter is the remote handheld controller for the RC. Also, a raspberry pi 0.6MP camera is integrated for live video streaming. The live streaming will provide the actual scenario of the environment to operate, control and navigate the RC. This robot also carries some important sensors like a Gas sensor, Ultrasonic Sonar Sensor and 3-Axis Digital Compass to bring out the scientific task of the robot. This prototype can be both used for educational and research purpose. The performance of the robot can be measured by the transmission of the video streaming, control system success rate for RF controller, outcomes of the sensors and the accuracy of the 6 DOF Arm.

The long-term goal of this work is to build an assistive robot for elderly and disabled people. It is part of the French ANR ARMEN project. The subjects will interact with a mobile robot controlled by a virtual character. In order to build this system, we collected interactions between patients from different medical centers and a Wizard-of-Oz operated virtual character in the frame of scenarii written with physicians and functional therapists. The human-robot spoken interaction consisted mainly of small talking with patients, with no real task to perform. For precise tasks such as “Finding a remote control,” keyword recognition is performed. The main focus of the article is to build an emotion detection system that will be used to control the dialog and the answer strategy of the virtual character. This article presents the Wizard-of-Oz system for the audio corpus collection which is used for training the emotion detection module. We analyze the audio data at the segmental level on annotated measures of acoustically perceived emotion but also at the interaction level with global objective measures such as amount of speech and emotion. We also report on the results of a questionnaire qualifying the interaction and the agent and compare between objective and subjective measures.