Center for Wheelchairs and Assistive Robotics Engineering

轮椅和辅助机器人工程中心

• 批准号: 10275483
• 负责人: RORY A. COOPER
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10275483
• 关键词: Address; Advisory Committees; Aging; Awareness; Caregivers; Caring; Clinical Practice Guideline; Development; Devices; Disabled Persons; Discipline; Emerging Technologies; Engineering; Environment; Equipment; Expert Systems; Family; Freedom; Goals; Healthcare Systems; Heart; Link; Measurable; Measures; Medical; Mentors; Multiple Trauma; Outcome; Output; Personal Satisfaction; Physical Medicine; Physical therapy; Private Sector; Process; Prosthesis; Provider; Recommendation; Rehabilitation therapy; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Robotics; Scientist; Self-Help Devices; Sensory; Sensory Aids; Services; Surveys; Survival Rate; Technology; Training; Translating; Universities; User-Computer Interface; Veterans; Voice; Vulnerable Populations; Wheelchairs; assistive robot; beneficiary; care delivery; career; design; disability; functional improvement; improved; improved mobility; industry partner; innovation; military service; multiple disability; next generation; operation; programs; rehabilitation engineering; research and development; robotic system; service organization; severe injury

There is an influx in the number of Veterans with disabilities (VwD) using mobility and manipulation devices due to aging, improved medical care which has increased survival rates from severe injuries, and polytrauma resulting in multiple disabilities. Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and New Dawn account for over 250,000 unique VwD who received devices from VA Prosthetics and Sensory Aid Service (PSAS). Veterans are at the heart of everything that WARE does and strives to achieve. WARE has always been Veteran-led and Veteran-focused with a significant number of Veterans engaged with WARE at multiple levels. Participatory action design is and always has been the very heart of WARE’s research and development. The focus of WARE will be on research and development within four themes: (Theme 1) Smart Device Applications, (Theme 2) Advanced Wheelchair Design, (Theme 3) Assistive Robotics and Intelligent Systems, and (Theme 4) Human Machine Interfaces. WARE will link capacity building and Voice of the Consumer (VoC) and Voice of the Process (VoP) recommendations by creating core activities in promoting an innovation environment for VwD and VA clinicians. It is apparent that some VwD and assistive technology providers do not know that important technologies exist and asked to be kept informed about available and emerging technologies. WARE will measure consumer, provider, and family/caregiver awareness of available products, research outputs, and clinical practice guidelines and assess whether they are being used. Training the next generation of rehabilitation scientists and engineers is one of the most important contributions a Center can make to the long-term well- being of VwD. WARE is committed to mentoring new investigators (especially Veterans) to help them to successful careers focused on VwD. WARE is committed to remain a leader in assistive technology standards development and implementation. WARE’s proposed research, development, and core activities will result in improved function and mobility outcomes of VwD. WARE is aligned with the VA’s Blueprint for Excellence. It promotes Veteran-driven care, addresses vulnerable populations, elevates the VA as the provider of choice, aims to achieve care delivery that compares to or exceeds the private sector, and aligns the VA with academic partners. WARE will leverage the expertise developed by VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS), industry partners, Veterans Service Organizations, and the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt). WARE has been and will continue to be focused on making tangible and measurable improvements for VwD who use wheelchairs and robotics technologies. An overarching goal is to translate findings throughout VA and into use by Veterans. Keywords (Scientific Disciplines): Rehabilitation Engineering, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and Physical Therapy. Keywords (Research Foci): Smart Device Applications, Advanced Wheelchair Design, Assistive Robotics and Intelligent Systems, and Human Machine Interfaces Wheelchairs, Assistive Robotics, Wearable and Connected Devices.

使用移动和操纵设备的残疾退伍军人（VwD）数量激增