エンタテインメントロボットを用いたロボット介在リハビリテーションの試み

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Robot Assisted Activity (RAA) and Robot Assisted Therapy (RAT) were put into practice and shown to be effective at the rehabilitation ward and elderly persons' nursing home using commercially available entertainment robots. Animal Assisted Activity (AAA) and Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) are well known and modeled on this study. Remote control of the robot that is impossible in the case of an animal showed very effective in the rehabilitation practice and Robot Assisted Rehabilitation (RAR) was proposed. However there are several problems for the remote controlled RAR to receive wide recognition as the candidate of the complementary medicine. One of the problems is that the robot operator is needed besides intervener or therapist. To solve this problem a small and simple operating terminal with www browser was developed aiming it can be used by the intervener. In this paper, preliminary studies of RAA/RAT are reported laying stress on rehabilitation application and improvement of the robot remote control system.
2008-03-31