The Role of Assistive Robotics in the Lives of Persons with... : American Journal of Physical
Medicine & Rehabilitation The Role of Assistive Robotics in the Lives of Persons with Disability …

Purpose Shared autonomy has played a major role in assistive mobile robotics as it has the
potential to effectively balance user satisfaction and smooth functioning of systems by …

This paper describes the state-of-the art of a large-scale project, aimed towards the
development of personal service robots for the elderly population. Taking care of elderly and …

This paper evaluates a model of human imitation of abstract, two-arm movements. The
model consists of a hierarchy of artificial neural networks, which are abstractions of brain …

Rehabilitation robotics aims to facilitate the rehabilitation procedure for patients and physical
therapists. This field has a relatively long history dating back to the 1990s; however, their …

KARES, an acronym of KAIST Rehabilitation Engineering System, is the intelligent
rehabilitation system with a 6 DOF robotic arm mounted on the powered wheelchair. It is …

Human care and service demands need an innovative robotic solution to make easier the
everyday life of elderly and disabled people in home and workplace environments. The …

Human environments present special challenges for robot manipulation. They are often
dynamic, difficult to predict, and beyond the control of a robot engineer. Fortunately, many …

With an increase in the number of handicapped persons, there is a growing demand for
human friendly interface as mobility aids. To meet this need, we have developed two …

Pervasive healthcare is an emerging technology that aims to provide round-the-clock
monitoring of several vital signs of patients using various health sensors, specialized …