Design and evaluation of robot patient for nursing skill training in patient transfer

Autor: Masako Kanai-Pak, Zhifeng Huang, Takahiro Katayama, Taiki Ogata, Yasuko Kitajima, Jun Ota, Kyoko Aida, Jukai Maeda, Noriaki Kuwahara, Mitsuhiro Nakamura
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Advanced Robotics. 29:1269-1285
ISSN: 1568-5535
0169-1864
Popis: We developed a robot patient for patient transfer training for simulating a patient’s performance during patient transfer and for enabling nurses to practice their nursing skills on it. To realize the robot patient, we focused on addressing the problems of designing its limb actions to enable it to respond to nurses’ operations. RC servos and electromagnetic brakes were installed in the joints to enable the robot to simulate a patient’s limb actions, such as embracing and remaining standing. To enable the robot to automatically respond to nurses’ operations, an identification method for these operations was developed that used voice commands and the features of the limbs’ posture measured by angle sensors installed in the robot’s joints. The robot patient’s performance was examined by a control test in which four experienced nursing teachers performed patient transfer with the robot patient and a human-simulated patient. The results revealed that the robot patient could successfully simulate the actions o...
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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