PECASE: Virtual Robotic Environments for Rehabilitation and Human Augmentation

PECASE：用于康复和人类增强的虚拟机器人环境

• 批准号: 0238204
• 负责人: Yoky Matsuoka
• 金额: $ 45.63万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-03-01 至 2007-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0238204&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PECASE; Virtual; Robotic; Environments; Rehabilitation

Proposal Title: PECASE: Virtual Robotic Environments for Rehabilitation andHuman AugmentationInstitution: Carnegie-Mellon UniversityTo develop truly integrated human-robot interactive environments to understand, assist, rehabilitate, and enhance the human neuromuscular systems, a virtual robotic environment that explores human's full potential needs and abilities will be developed. As the first step, an inherently safe stationary wearable arm system will be designed and constructed with a neuro-muscular system identification technique to extract the human adaptation parameters in real time. The intellectual merit of the proposed activity is that, using this virtual robotic environment, fundamental scientific questions relating to human perceptual and neural interactions between the virtual and actual movements will be investigated. With these intellectual contributions, this environment will immediately lead to rehabilitating patients with motor impairments, even for those who are not strong enough to execute task-level movements on their own, by steering them beyond what they had previously thought they were capable of doing. The educational goals are to create interdisciplinary educational environment, to increase the number of women in engineering and computer science, and to increase the interaction between motor-impaired students and engineering students. The proposed research and educational approach will have a significant and broader impact not only in the scientific and educational communities but also the lives of disabled people who are not currently able to independently execute everyday tasks.This project was originally funded as a CAREER award, and was converted to a Presidential Early Career Award for Engineers and Scientists (PECASE) award in September 2004.

提案标题：PECASE：用于康复和人类放大的虚拟机器人环境机构：卡内基-梅隆大学为开发真正集成的人-机器人交互环境，以了解、协助、康复和增强人类神经肌肉系统，将开发一个虚拟机器人环境，探索人类的全部潜在需求和能力。作为第一步，将设计和构建一个本质上安全的固定可穿戴手臂系统，并使用神经肌肉系统识别技术来实时提取人类适应参数。拟议活动的智力价值在于，使用这种虚拟机器人环境，将研究与虚拟和实际运动之间的人类感知和神经交互有关的基本科学问题。有了这些智力贡献，这种环境将立即导致运动障碍患者的康复，即使是那些身体不够强壮，无法独立执行任务级动作的患者，通过引导他们超越他们之前认为自己有能力做的事情。教育目标是创造跨学科的教育环境，增加工程学和计算机科学领域的女性人数，并增加运动障碍学生和工程学学生之间的互动。拟议的研究和教育方法不仅将对科学和教育界产生重大和更广泛的影响，而且将对目前无法独立执行日常任务的残疾人的生活产生重大影响。该项目最初是作为职业奖资助的，并于2004年9月转变为总统工程师和科学家早期职业奖(PECASE)奖。