Gestural Interfaces and Robotics for Rehabilitation

用于康复的手势界面和机器人技术

• 批准号: 7326348
• 负责人: CORINNA E LATHAN
• 金额: $ 42.1万
• 依托单位: ANTHROTRONIX, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-03-01 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7326348
• 关键词: Activities of Daily Living; Age; Age-Months; Architecture; Books; Brain; Brain Injuries; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Cerebral Palsy; Child; Clinic; Collection; Computer software; Computers; Data; Data Collection; Development; Devices; Diagnosis; Double-Blind Method; Effectiveness; Engineering; Environment; Experimental Designs; Family; Feedback; Genetic Crossing Over; Gestures; Goals; Human; Impairment; Incidence; Individual; Intervention; Joystick; Learning; Location; Manuals; Marketing; Metric; Mission; Monitor; Motion; Motivation; Motor; Movement; Neonatal; Neurologic; Numbers; Occupational Therapist; Occupational Therapy; Outpatients; Output; Parents; Patients; Pediatric Hospitals; Perception; Phase; Physical therapy; Play; Plug-in; Positioning Attribute; Prevalence; Purpose; Rehabilitation therapy; Research; Robot; Robotics; School-Age Population; Schools; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Specific qualifier value; Stroke; System; Technology; Testing; Therapeutic; Therapeutic Intervention; Time; Toy; Upper Extremity; Videotape; Washington; base; clinical efficacy; commercialization; design; disability; functional disability; functional outcomes; innovation; motor control; nervous system disorder; programs; research and development; research clinical testing; response; sensor; success; tool; usability

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project is to develop robot-based content to target upper extremity movement therapy goals and evaluate the clinical efficacy of the CosmoBot Robotics System as a therapy intervention for children diagnosed with cerebral palsy, brain injury, and stroke. Cerebral palsy is the most prevalent and one of the three most common physical impairment for children of ages 17 and under, with a prevalence of 2.6% and an incidence of 43/100,000 children per year. The incidence of brain injury among school aged children has been estimated by the CDC as 90 per 100,000 resulting in the addition of 60,000 children with new brain injuries annually. The incidence of stroke in neonatal children (<1 months of age) has been estimated by the CDC as 1:4000 and for children from 2 months to 18 years as 14.5:100,000. The CosmoBot system is developed by AnthroTronix, Inc., a human factors engineering company. The technology is centered around CosmoBot, a child-friendly robot controlled by various interfaces adapted to individual needs, regardless of physical limitations. The child controls the robot via gestures. Gestures may include reaching for a button, operating a joystick, or activating wearable sensors through body movement. The CosmoBot system allows the child to interact with its environment, giving the child a sense of control. In addition, the robot imitates movements, providing feedback and motivation for learning. The proposed project is to develop specific robot-based activities to maximize the CosmoBot system's effectiveness in targeting therapy goals and motivating children with neurological impairments. Specific Aim 1 is to design and develop the robot-based activities in software, targeting therapy goals for children with neurological impairments, and integrating the software into the system's already-existing software architecture. Specific Aim 2 is to evaluate CosmoBot's effectiveness as an intervention tool and assessing functional outcomes. Specific Aim 2 will be carried out with 20 subjects, ages 3-10, diagnosed with cerebral palsy, brain injury, or stroke and receiving outpatient therapy at the Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital, Cheverly, MD or the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. A blinded, double cross-over experimental design will be used. Interventions will be developed utilizing the CosmoBot system for a specific therapeutic goal for each child and will be compared directly to conventional therapy for the same therapeutic goal. The metrics for success are whether the CosmoBot system is just as, or more, effective, in targeting identified therapy goals and in engaging young children, and whether the system is easy for therapists to use and is accepted by children and parents as a positive component for therapy. Of children with physical disabilities, many require ongoing physical and occupational therapy to optimize their movement capabilities in order for them to participate in family, school and recreational activities. The most common neurological disorders of the brain, which impact the physical ability of children are cerebral palsy, brain injury and stroke. This project will develop activities using a therapeutic toy robot, CosmoBot, to facilitate motor development and functional mobility of young children with movement impairments. Therapists in two locations will test the CosmoBot in order to evaluate how easy the system is to use, how much it appeals to the children, and whether it is effective in targeting therapy goals.

描述（由申请人提供）：这个小型企业创新研究阶段II阶段项目是开发基于机器人的内容，以针对上肢运动治疗目标，并评估Cosmobot机器人系统系统的临床疗效，作为对诊断患有脑瘫，脑损伤和中风的儿童的治疗干预措施。脑瘫是17岁及以下儿童的三种最普遍的身体障碍，也是三种最常见的身体障碍之一，患病率为2.6％，每年发生43/100,000名儿童。疾病预防控制中心估计，学校老年儿童脑损伤的发生率为每100,000人90，导致每年增加60,000名新脑损伤儿童。 CDC估计新生儿儿童中风的发生率为1：4000，2个月至18岁的儿童为14.5：100,000。 COSMOBOT系统由人为因素工程公司Anthrotronix，Inc。开发。该技术以Cosmobot为中心，Cosmobot是一种对儿童友好的机器人，该机器人由各种界面控制，无论身体上的局限性如何。孩子通过手势控制机器人。手势可能包括伸手拿一个按钮，操作操纵杆或通过身体运动激活可穿戴传感器。 COSMOBOT系统允许孩子与环境互动，从而使孩子具有控制感。此外，机器人模仿运动，提供了学习的反馈和动力。拟议的项目是开发特定的基于机器人的活动，以最大程度地提高Cosmobot系统在靶向治疗目标和激励神经系统障碍的儿童方面的有效性。具体目标1是设计和开发基于机器人的软件活动，针对患有神经系统障碍的儿童的治疗目标，并将软件整合到系统已经存在的软件体系结构中。具体目标2是评估Cosmobot作为干预工具的有效性并评估功能结果。特定的目标2将由20名3-10岁的受试者进行，被诊断出患有脑瘫，脑损伤或中风或中风，并在华盛顿山小儿医院（Cheverly，MD）或Mayo Clinic，Mayo Clinic，Mayo Clinic，Rochester，Rochester，MN。将使用盲，双跨部的实验设计。利用Cosmobot系统为每个孩子的特定治疗目标开发干预措施，并将直接与常规治疗进行相同的治疗目标进行比较。成功的指标是，宇宙体系是否或更有效地瞄准确定的治疗目标和吸引幼儿，以及该系统是否易于治疗师使用，并被子女和父母接受作为治疗的积极组成部分。 在身体残疾儿童中，许多人需要持续的身体和职业疗法来优化其运动能力，以便他们参加家庭，学校和娱乐活动。大脑中最常见的神经系统疾病，影响儿童的身体能力是脑瘫，脑损伤和中风。该项目将使用治疗性玩具机器人Cosmobot开发活动，以促进运动障碍的幼儿运动和功能性流动性。在两个位置的治疗师将测试Cosmobot，以评估系统使用的容易程度，对儿童的吸引力以及它是否有效地针对治疗目标。