Multidisciplinary Engineering Capstone Design on Geriatric Assistive Devices and Systems (GADS)

[853936] shih该项目的目的是与物理医学和康复部（pm&r）和密歇根大学（UM）医院合作，开发一门多学科工程顶峰设计课程，重点是老年辅助设备和系统（GADS）。发达国家的快速老龄化社会为21世纪提供了许多新的工程机会。目前生活空间的布局，家具（床、椅子、桌子、沙发等）的设计，甚至大多数家用设备的使用方式（用于烹饪、洗澡、娱乐、存储等）都是针对健康的、可移动的成年人，往往忽视了老年人和/或残疾人，他们经常独自生活，行动不便。使问题更加复杂的是，目前市场上缺乏针对老年辅助设备的系统级设计；这意味着设备通常在设计时没有考虑将其集成到整个家庭的整体辅助框架中，这可能导致设备之间的需求未得到满足或不兼容。目前老年辅助器具的发展主要针对两个极端。一端是设计成通用的系统：用一个设备满足尽可能多的需求。这里的工作主要集中在复杂而昂贵的机器人系统上，比如HAL外骨骼（由赛博达因公司制造）、PaPeRo（由NEC公司制造）和ASIMO（由本田公司制造）机器人，它们能够自主执行任务。在老年辅助设备开发中看到的另一个极端包括功能非常有限的简单、低成本产品。这一领域的设备包括用于淋浴的塑料长椅，或用于抓手机的粘性手柄。智力价值：该项目的成果包括推动设计和治疗科学的发展，并将在老年研究基础研究中获得的知识应用于创造有利于老年人医疗保健和生活质量的设备。该项目可对促进工程与物理医学和康复之间的合作产生重大影响。除了老年人，护理人员，包括职业和物理治疗师，也可以从这个项目中受益。他们有机会与工程师沟通他们的需求，并与他们一起创造新的辅助设备和系统。我们还计划通过UM老年中心的特纳老年资源中心向社区展示GADS课程。该项目将与澳大pm&r的两位共同负责人Mark Ziadeh博士教授和顾问Susan Murphy教授以及澳大医院的职业和物理治疗师密切合作。因此，这项提案是工程学院成员、老年康复医学博士和治疗研究科学博士之间的一次独特合作，所有人都在共同创造GADS设计的新领域。更广泛的影响：该项目的目标是创造专业，简单，价格合理的机电设备，执行非常具体的家庭任务。老年人视力、行动能力、感觉和认知能力有限的需求将得到解决。学生团队将为生活空间的五个主要房间进行协作集群项目：浴室、卧室、厨房、车库和客厅。讲师将协调各个项目，创建一个连贯的系统，以提高整个生活空间中老龄人口的生活质量。这种项目的综合方法，其中每个项目都成为整体系统的一部分，是本项目课程的关键方面。在这个为期五年的项目结束时，将建立一个GADS演示区，以展示团队设计的老年辅助设备与系统的集成。学生需要采访老年人以及与老年人一起工作的职业和物理治疗师，以确定他们项目领域的具体需求，与PM&amp；R教职员工密切合作，并通过UM老年医学中心的特纳高级资源中心向社区提供服务。

0853936ShihThe aim of this project is to collaborate with the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) and University of Michigan (UM) Hospitals to develop a multidisciplinary engineering capstone design course focusing on Geriatric Assistive Devices and Systems (GADS). The rapidly-aging societies of the developed world present many new engineering opportunities for the 21st century. The current layout of living spaces, the designs of furniture (beds, chairs, tables, sofas, etc.), and even the means of using most household devices (for cooking, bathing, entertainment, storage, etc.) are all targeted at healthy, mobile adults, often ignoring the aged and/or disabled individuals who often live alone and have limited mobility. To compound the problem, there is a lack of system-level design for geriatric assistive devices on the market today; meaning devices are often designed without considering their integration into an overall assistive framework for an entire household, which can lead to unmet needs or incompatibility between devices. The current development of geriatric assistive devices is aimed in two extremes. On one end are systems designed to be general-purpose: to address as many needs as possible with one device. Work here has focused on complicated and expensive robotic systems, such as the HAL exoskeleton (by Cyberdyne), and the PaPeRo (by NEC) and ASIMO (by Honda) robots, which are capable of performing tasks autonomously. The other extreme seen in geriatric assistive device development contains simple, low cost products that have very limited functionality. Devices in this realm include plastic benches for showering, or adhesive handles for gripping phones. Intellectual merit: of this project include advancing design and therapeutic sciences, and applying the knowledge gained in basic research of geriatric studies towards creating devices that will benefit healthcare and quality of life for seniors. The project can have a great impact in promoting collaboration between engineering and physical medicine and rehabilitation. Apart from the elderly, caregivers, including occupational and physical therapists, can benefit from this project as well. They have the opportunity to communicate their needs to engineers and work together with them to create new assistive devices and systems. We also plan to expose the GADS class to the community via the Turner Senior Resource Center in UM Geriatric Center. This project will work in close collaboration with two UM PM&R co-PI, Prof. Dr. Mark Ziadeh and consultant Prof. Susan Murphy as well as occupational and physical therapists at UM Hospitals. This proposal is thus a unique collaboration among an engineering faculty member, a MD in geriatric rehabilitation, and a ScD in therapeutic studies, all working together in the creation of new frontier in the design of GADS.Broader Impacts: The goal of this project is to create specialized, simple, and affordable mechatronic devices that perform very specific household tasks. The needs of aging adults with limited vision, mobility, sensation, and cognition will be addressed. Student teams will work on a collaborative cluster of projects for five major rooms of a living space: the bathroom, the bedroom, the kitchen, the garage, and the living room. The instructor will coordinate among projects to create a coherent system to improve the quality of life of the aging population across the entire living space. This integrative approach to the projects, where each becomes part of an overall system, is a critical aspect of this project course. At the end of this five-year project, a GADS demo area will be built to showcase the integration of the team-designed geriatric assistive devices into a system. Students are required to interview aging adults and occupational and physical therapists working with aging adults to identify specific needs in their project area, work closely with PM&R faculty, and outreach to the community through the Turner Senior Resource Center of the UM Geriatric Center.