A Human–Machine Interface Design to Control an Intelligent Rehabilitation Robot System

The demand for rehabilitation increases daily as a result of diseases, occupational and traffic accidents and population growth. In the present time, some important problems occur regarding the rehabilitation period: the transportation of patients, the acquisition and storage of treatment data and the need to support the physiotherapists with intelligent devices. In order to overcome these challenges, the authors hereby propose a human machine interface to control an intelligent rehabilitation robot system designed for the lower limbs. The human machine interface has a structure that is created with a rule-based intelligent controlling structure, combined with conventional controller and an easy-to-use graphical user interface. By means of this interface, the rehabilitation sessions can be stored and members of the rehabilitation team can reach to this stored data via internet. Additionally, the patient can receive treatment in his house. One physiotherapist is able to treat several patients at a time by utilizing this system. The system’s capacity has been elaborated through the test results.

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A human-machine interface design for direct rehabilitation using a rehabilitation robot

Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Soft computing as transdisciplinary science and technology - CSTST '08 ◽

10.1145/1456223.1456244 ◽

2008 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Erhan Akdogan ◽

M. Arif Adli ◽

M. Nureddin Bennett

Keyword(s):

Interface Design ◽

Human Machine Interface ◽

Rehabilitation Robot ◽

Machine Interface

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Improving Human Ground Control Performance in Unmanned Aerial Systems

Future Internet ◽

10.3390/fi13080188 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (8) ◽

pp. 188

Author(s):

Marianna Di Gregorio ◽

Marco Romano ◽

Monica Sebillo ◽

Giuliana Vitiello ◽

Angela Vozella

Keyword(s):

Situation Awareness ◽

Interface Design ◽

Human Machine Interface ◽

Ground Control ◽

Entire Group ◽

Unmanned Aerial Systems ◽

Ground Control Station ◽

Machine Interface ◽

Team Situation Awareness ◽

Aerial Systems

The use of Unmanned Aerial Systems, commonly called drones, is growing enormously today. Applications that can benefit from the use of fleets of drones and a related human–machine interface are emerging to ensure better performance and reliability. In particular, a fleet of drones can become a valuable tool for monitoring a wide area and transmitting relevant information to the ground control station. We present a human–machine interface for a Ground Control Station used to remotely operate a fleet of drones, in a collaborative setting, by a team of multiple operators. In such a collaborative setting, a major interface design challenge has been to maximize the Team Situation Awareness, shifting the focus from the individual operator to the entire group decision-makers. We were especially interested in testing the hypothesis that shared displays may improve the team situation awareness and hence the overall performance. The experimental study we present shows that there is no difference in performance between shared and non-shared displays. However, in trials when unexpected events occurred, teams using shared displays-maintained good performance whereas in teams using non-shared displays performance reduced. In particular, in case of unexpected situations, operators are able to safely bring more drones home, maintaining a higher level of team situational awareness.

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