Single-Switch User Interface for Robot Arm to Help Disabled People Using RT-Middleware
We are developing a manipulator system in order to support disabled people with less muscle strength such as muscular dystrophy patients. Such a manipulator should have an easy user interface for the users to control it. But the supporting manipulator for disabled people cannot make large industry,...
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| author | Yujin Wakita Natsuki Yamanobe Kazuyuki Nagata Eiichi Ono |
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| description | We are developing a manipulator system in order to support disabled people with less muscle strength such as muscular dystrophy patients. Such a manipulator should have an easy user interface for the users to control it. But the supporting manipulator for disabled people cannot make large industry, so we should offer inexpensive manufacturing way. These type products are called “orphan products.” We report on the construction of the user interface system using RT-Middleware which is an open software platform for robot systems. Therefore other user interface components or robot components which are adapted to other symptoms can be replaced with the user interface without any change of the contents. A single switch and scanning menu panel are introduced as the input device for the manual control of the robot arm. The scanning menu panel is designed to perform various actions of the robot arm with the single switch. A manipulator simulation system was constructed to evaluate the input performance. Two muscular dystrophy patients tried our user interface to control the robot simulator and made comments. According to the comments by them, we made several improvements on the user interface. This improvements examples prepare inexpensive manufacturing way for orphan products. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3ceb5b5c11794694b71ce1819130543e2025-02-03T01:02:41ZengWileyJournal of Robotics1687-96001687-96192011-01-01201110.1155/2011/528425528425Single-Switch User Interface for Robot Arm to Help Disabled People Using RT-MiddlewareYujin Wakita0Natsuki Yamanobe1Kazuyuki Nagata2Eiichi Ono3Intelligent Systems Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Ibaraki, Tsukuba 305-8568, JapanIntelligent Systems Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Ibaraki, Tsukuba 305-8568, JapanIntelligent Systems Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Ibaraki, Tsukuba 305-8568, JapanDepartment of Rehabilitation Engineering, Research Institute of National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, Saitama, Tokorozawa, 359-8555, JapanWe are developing a manipulator system in order to support disabled people with less muscle strength such as muscular dystrophy patients. Such a manipulator should have an easy user interface for the users to control it. But the supporting manipulator for disabled people cannot make large industry, so we should offer inexpensive manufacturing way. These type products are called “orphan products.” We report on the construction of the user interface system using RT-Middleware which is an open software platform for robot systems. Therefore other user interface components or robot components which are adapted to other symptoms can be replaced with the user interface without any change of the contents. A single switch and scanning menu panel are introduced as the input device for the manual control of the robot arm. The scanning menu panel is designed to perform various actions of the robot arm with the single switch. A manipulator simulation system was constructed to evaluate the input performance. Two muscular dystrophy patients tried our user interface to control the robot simulator and made comments. According to the comments by them, we made several improvements on the user interface. This improvements examples prepare inexpensive manufacturing way for orphan products.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/528425 |
| spellingShingle | Yujin Wakita Natsuki Yamanobe Kazuyuki Nagata Eiichi Ono Single-Switch User Interface for Robot Arm to Help Disabled People Using RT-Middleware Journal of Robotics |
| title | Single-Switch User Interface for Robot Arm to Help Disabled People Using RT-Middleware |
| title_full | Single-Switch User Interface for Robot Arm to Help Disabled People Using RT-Middleware |
| title_fullStr | Single-Switch User Interface for Robot Arm to Help Disabled People Using RT-Middleware |
| title_full_unstemmed | Single-Switch User Interface for Robot Arm to Help Disabled People Using RT-Middleware |
| title_short | Single-Switch User Interface for Robot Arm to Help Disabled People Using RT-Middleware |
| title_sort | single switch user interface for robot arm to help disabled people using rt middleware |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/528425 |
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