Comparison of tongue interface with keyboard for control of an assistive robotic arm

Autor: Lotte N. S. Andreasen Struijk, Romulus Lontis
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Struijk, L N S A & Lontis, R 2017, Comparison of tongue interface with keyboard for control of an assistive robotic arm . in Proceedings from 15th IEEE Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR, 17-20 July 2017, London, UK . IEEE, International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, pp. 925-928, 15th IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR, London, United Kingdom, 17/07/2017 . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICORR.2017.8009367
ICORR
ISSN: 1945-7901
DOI: 10.1109/ICORR.2017.8009367
Popis: This paper demonstrates how an assistive 6 DoF robotic arm with a gripper can be controlled manually using a tongue interface. The proposed method suggests that it possible for a user to manipulate the surroundings with his or her tongue using the inductive tongue control system as deployed in this study. The sensors of an inductive tongue-computer interface were mapped to the Cartesian control of an assistive robotic arm. The resulting control system was tested manually in order to compare manual control of the robot using a standard keyboard and using the tongue interface. Two healthy subjects controlled the robotic arm to precisely move a bottle of water from one location to another. The results shows that the tongue interface was able to fully control the robotic arm in a similar manner as the standard keyboard resulting in the same number of successful manipulations and an average increase in task duration of up to 30% as compared with the standard keyboard.
Databáze: OpenAIRE