In-home and remote use of robotic body surrogates by people with profound motor deficits.

ABSTRACT: By controlling robots comparable to the human body, people with profound motor deficits could potentially perform a variety of physical tasks for themselves, improving their quality of life. The extent to which this is achievable has been unclear due to the lack of suitable interfaces by which to control robotic body surrogates and a dearth of studies involving substantial numbers of people with profound motor deficits. We developed a novel, web-based augmented reality interface that enables people with profound motor deficits to remotely control a PR2 mobile manipulator from Willow Garage, which is a human-scale, wheeled robot with two arms. We then conducted two studies to investigate the use of robotic body surrogates. In the first study, 15 novice users with profound motor deficits fro

SUBMITTER: Grice PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6420017 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature