Exploiting the link between action and perception: Minimally assisted robotic training of the kinesthetic sense

Dalia De Santis, Jacopo Zenzeri, Lorenzo Masia, Valentina Squeri, Pietro Morasso

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Abstract

Since action and perception are tightly coupled and the dysfunction of one of the two channels necessary give rise to different degrees of impairment in the other, we believe that the recovery process would significantly benefit from training protocols able to evaluate and consistently recruit both motor aspects and proprioception concurrently. Therefore, we propose a novel assistive protocol for kinesthetic training of reaching movements that is able to adaptively regulate the level of haptic guidance according to the level of proprioceptive performance along specific directions. Preliminary results show that our adaptive procedure is able to finely tune the level of guidance to the desired level of kinesthetic performance in all the target directions within the duration of the training session. Moreover, the algorithm is able to compensate for perceptual anisotropies that depend on the force direction and its parameters are sensitive to modulations of the kinesthetic sensitivity that may arise as a consequence of practice.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication"2014 5th IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2014
EditorsRaffaella Carloni, Lorenzo Masia, Jose Maria Sabater-Navarro, Marko Ackermann, Sunil Agrawal, Arash Ajoudani, Panagiotis Artemiadis, Matteo Bianchi, Antonio Padilha Lanari Bo, Maura Casadio, Kevin Cleary, Ashish Deshpande, Domenico Formica, Matteo Fumagalli, Nicolas Garcia-Aracil, Sasha Blue Godfrey, Islam S.M. Khalil, Olivier Lambercy, Rui C. V. Loureiro, Leonardo Mattos, Victor Munoz, Hyung-Soon Park, Luis Eduardo Rodriguez Cheu, Roque Saltaren, Adriano A. G. Siqueira, Valentina Squeri, Arno H.A. Stienen, Nikolaos Tsagarakis, Herman Van der Kooij, Bram Vanderborght, Nicola Vitiello, Jose Zariffa, Loredana Zollo
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages287-292
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781479931262
DOIs
StatePublished - 30 Sep 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event5th IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2014 - Sao Paulo, Brazil
Duration: 12 Aug 201415 Aug 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics
ISSN (Print)2155-1774

Conference

Conference5th IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2014
Country/TerritoryBrazil
CitySao Paulo
Period12/08/1415/08/14

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