LASER BASED TELEROBOTIC CONTROL FOR ASSISTING PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES PERFORM ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING

Karan Khokar, Redwan Alqasemi, Rajiv Dubey

2010

Abstract

In this paper we demonstrate an innovative use of range information from a laser sensor mounted on the end- effector of a remote robot manipulator to assist persons with disabilities carry out ADL (Activities of Daily Living) tasks in unstructured environments. Laser range data is used to determine goals, identify targets and via points to enable autonomous execution of trajectories. The human operator performs minimal teleoperation and is primarily involved in higher level decision making. We hypothesize that laser based assistance improves task performance in terms of time and accuracy and also reduces the cognitive load on the user executing the task. Tests on ten healthy human subjects in executing a remote manipulation task conform the hypothesis.

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in Harvard Style

Khokar K., Alqasemi R. and Dubey R. (2010). LASER BASED TELEROBOTIC CONTROL FOR ASSISTING PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES PERFORM ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-8425-01-0, pages 446-449. DOI: 10.5220/0003004804460449


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco10,
author={Karan Khokar and Redwan Alqasemi and Rajiv Dubey},
title={LASER BASED TELEROBOTIC CONTROL FOR ASSISTING PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES PERFORM ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,},
year={2010},
pages={446-449},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003004804460449},
isbn={978-989-8425-01-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,
TI - LASER BASED TELEROBOTIC CONTROL FOR ASSISTING PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES PERFORM ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING
SN - 978-989-8425-01-0
AU - Khokar K.
AU - Alqasemi R.
AU - Dubey R.
PY - 2010
SP - 446
EP - 449
DO - 10.5220/0003004804460449