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- The study addresses the challenge of creating a balanced control system that allows individuals with disabilities to efficiently use robotic assistance for daily tasks, specifically focusing on wheelchairs and robotic arms.
- Researchers developed an eye-tracking assistive control system to encourage active participation in self-help activities, integrating a user-friendly graphical interface with this control architecture.
- User testing with healthy participants showed a 100% success rate in completing tasks, supporting the system's efficacy for people with motor impairments while also indicating favorable acceptance rates among users.
Article Abstract
Background: Building control architecture that balances the assistive manipulation systems with the benefits of direct human control is a crucial challenge of human-robot collaboration. It promises to help people with disabilities more efficiently control wheelchair and wheelchair-mounted robot arms to accomplish activities of daily living.
Methods: In this study, our research objective is to design an eye-tracking assistive robot control system capable of providing targeted engagement and motivating individuals with a disability to use the developed method for self-assistance activities of daily living. The graphical user interface is designed and integrated with the developed control architecture to achieve the goal.
Results: We evaluated the system by conducting a user study. Ten healthy participants performed five trials of three manipulation tasks using the graphical user interface and the developed control framework. The 100% success rate on task performance demonstrates the effectiveness of our system for individuals with motor impairments to control wheelchair and wheelchair-mounted assistive robotic manipulators.
Conclusions: We demonstrated the usability of using this eye-gaze system to control a robotic arm mounted on a wheelchair in activities of daily living for people with disabilities. We found high levels of acceptance with higher ratings in the evaluation of the system with healthy participants.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8684692 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12984-021-00969-2 | DOI Listing |
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