Toward Developing A Framework For Standardizing The Functional Assessment And Performance Evaluation Of Assistive Robotic Manipulators (Arms)

Abstract

The research and development of assistive robotic manipulators (ARMs) aims to enhance the upper-extremity daily functioning of individuals with disability. Resources continue to be invested, yet the field still lacks a standard framework to serve as a tool for the functional assessment and performance evaluation of ARMs. A review of the literature lends several suggestions from research in occupational therapy, rehabilitation robotics, and human-robot interaction. Performance assessments are often used during rehabilitation intervention by occupational therapists to evaluate a client's functional performance. Similarly, such assessments should be developed to make predictions regarding how ARM performance in a clinical setting may generalize to task execution throughout daily living. However, ergonomics and environmental differences have largely been ignored in past research. Additional insights from the literature provide suggestions for a common set of coding definitions, and a framework to organize the ad hoc performance measures observed across ARM studies.

Publication Date

1-1-2015

Publication Title

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Volume

2015-January

Number of Pages

986-990

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/1541931215591283

Socpus ID

84981744833 (Scopus)

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https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84981744833

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