Wearable Soft Robotics for Independent Living

用于独立生活的可穿戴软机器人

• 批准号: EP/M026388/1
• 负责人: Jonathan Rossiter
• 金额: $ 258.25万
• 依托单位: University of Bristol
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FM026388%2F1
• 关键词: Wearable; Soft; Robotics; Independent; Living

This project addresses the growing healthcare needs of people to live independently with dignity. There are 10.8 million disabled people living in the UK today (Office for Disability Issues 2010). Nearly 6.5 million have mobility impairments; 6 million have an impairment of lifting and carrying; 2.4 million have impaired co-ordination. Many of these people are supplied with assistive and rehabilitative technologies (ART), but much ART has low user acceptability and concordance, and may have a negative impact on people's perceived dignity. Many people do not use ART correctly, or at all, and many people find ART devices undignified. In extreme cases ill-fitting or ill-prescribed ART may even cause injury or increase disability. The consequence of this lack of effective and acceptable ART is that people living with mobility impairments are more prone to conditions such as poor circulation, skin pressure damage and falls. Each of these conditions has an enormous public health implication and together they constitute a substantial drain on health and social care resources. The cost of falls to the NHS is £2Bn, skin pressure damage £2.1Bn, and the overall cost of stroke to health and social care services and the loss of income is £9.8Bn.This project will be the first time that emerging soft robotics technologies are employed to address multiple rehabilitation and health care needs in one single class of wearable device, enabling effective and comfortable rehabilitation, functional restoration and long term assisted living. In contrast to conventional rigid robotics, the inherent physical compatibility of soft robotics with biological tissue and human motion means that truly adaptive assistive and rehabilitative technologies (or aART) can be realised. Soft robotic aART has the potential to be the ubiquitous, low cost and highly adaptable technology that transforms independent living for the disabled and infirm.The exciting challenge of this project is to develop the fundamental soft robot technologies needed to deliver wearable soft robotic assistive clothing and devices that are: 1. Effective in respect to a patient and their clinical need; 2. Easy to use; and, 3. Highly adaptable. The outcome of this project will be two fully tested soft robotic wearable demonstrator devices.

该项目满足了人们日益增长的医疗保健需求，使他们能够有尊严地独立生活。目前英国有1080万残疾人（残疾问题办公室，2010年）。近650万人有行动障碍；600万人有起重和搬运障碍；240万人的协调能力受损。其中许多人获得了辅助和康复技术，但许多辅助和康复技术的用户可接受性和协调性较低，并可能对人们的尊严产生负面影响。许多人没有正确使用抗逆转录病毒治疗，或者根本没有使用，许多人认为抗逆转录病毒治疗设备不体面。在极端情况下，不合适或处方不当的抗逆转录病毒治疗甚至可能造成伤害或加重残疾。缺乏有效和可接受的抗逆转录病毒治疗的后果是，行动不便的人更容易出现血液循环不良、皮肤压力损伤和跌倒等情况。这些情况中的每一种都对公共卫生产生巨大影响，它们共同构成卫生和社会保健资源的大量消耗。英国国家医疗服务体系（NHS）的跌倒成本为20亿英镑，皮肤压力损害为21亿英镑，中风对健康和社会护理服务的总体成本以及收入损失为98亿英镑。该项目将首次采用新兴的软机器人技术，在一类可穿戴设备中解决多种康复和医疗保健需求，实现有效舒适的康复、功能恢复和长期辅助生活。与传统的刚性机器人相比，软机器人与生物组织和人体运动的内在物理兼容性意味着可以实现真正的自适应辅助和康复技术（或aART）。软机器人aART有潜力成为无处不在、低成本和高度适应性的技术，改变残疾人和体弱者的独立生活。该项目令人兴奋的挑战是开发所需的基本软机器人技术，以提供可穿戴的软机器人辅助服装和设备，包括：1。对病人及其临床需要有效；2. 使用方便；, 3。高度适应性。该项目的结果将是两个经过全面测试的软机器人可穿戴演示设备。

项目成果

Expertise Affects Inter-Observer Agreement at Peripheral Locations within a Brain Tumor.

专业知识影响脑肿瘤内周围部位观察者间的一致性。

• DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01628
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: Frontiers in psychology
• 影响因子: 3.8
• 作者: Crowe EM;Alderson W;Rossiter J;Kent C
• 通讯作者: Kent C

Soft Photochemical Actuation Systems: Tuning Performance Through Solvent Selection

软光化学驱动系统：通过溶剂选择调整性能

• DOI: 10.1115/smasis2017-3821
• 发表时间: 2017
• 作者: Dicker M

RUBIC: An Untethered Soft Robot With Discrete Path Following.

• DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2019.00052
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Frontiers in robotics and AI
• 影响因子: 3.4
• 作者: Chen HY;Diteesawat RS;Haynes A;Partridge AJ;Simons MF;Werner E;Garrad M;Rossiter J;Conn AT
• 通讯作者: Conn AT

Multiple model switched repetitive control

• DOI: 10.1109/cdc.2017.8264368
• 发表时间: 2017-01
• 期刊: 2017 IEEE 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)
• 作者: C. Freeman

Pellicular Morphing Surfaces for Soft Robots

软体机器人的薄膜变形表面

• DOI: 10.1109/lra.2019.2901981
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
• 影响因子: 5.2
• 作者: Digumarti K