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Augmented Reality Robotic System (VROOM)

Project Description

• Prolonged and intensive practice has a dramatic influence on recovery. Recent robotics studies have been encouraging but limited by the small and restricted movements that are possible with the devices used.

• To achieve significant practical applications in rehabilitation, human-interface robots must safely operate in three dimensions with a large workspace and an appropriately designed visual interface.

• No current system has all of these features.

• To develop and integrate a robot with an AR display system.

• To determine whether training with this system leads to better functional returns compared to conventional rehabilitation.

• To determine future design specifications.

• We will develop instrumentation that allows subjects to receive therapeutic forces while they view synthetic cues and feedback superimposed on the real world.

• A longitudinal study on chronic stroke survivors will test the system's ability to perform as well as or better than conventional therapy.

• This panel of stroke survivors and clinicians will provide subjective and objective measures of the system's ability to restore function.