Parkinson’s Disease(PD)is a neurodegenerative disease which shows a deficiency in dopaminehormone in the brain.It is a common irreversible impairment among elderly people.Identifying this disease in its preliminary s...Parkinson’s Disease(PD)is a neurodegenerative disease which shows a deficiency in dopaminehormone in the brain.It is a common irreversible impairment among elderly people.Identifying this disease in its preliminary stage is important to improve the efficacy of the treatment process.Disordered gait is one of the key indications of early symptoms of PD.Therefore,the present paper introduces a novel approach to identify pa rkinsonian gait using raw vertical spatiotemporal ground reaction force.A convolution neural network(CNN)is implemented to identify the features in the parkinsonian gaits and their progressive stages.Moreover,the var iations of the gait pressures were visually recreated using ANSYS finite element software package.The CNN model has shown a 97%accuracy of recognizing parkinsonian gait and their different stages,and ANSYS model is implemented to visualize the pressure variation of the foot during a bottom-up approach.展开更多
Visual servoing is an active and popular area of research among roboticists.Eventhough visual servoing techniques enhance the perfomance,the associated systems still use traditional methods for their input control.Man...Visual servoing is an active and popular area of research among roboticists.Eventhough visual servoing techniques enhance the perfomance,the associated systems still use traditional methods for their input control.Many research activities and applications have been carried out to implement effective and precise controlling of bilateral systems.This paper presents a 3D spresctroscope-based control technique for bilateral systems.The effectiveness of the available master side designs are evaluated against gesture-based techniques.Joystick control,Electromyography(EMG),Voice control,Haptic control,Exoskeleton control,Gesture and Brain Control Interface(BCI)are identified in the litreature as available bilateral inputs.In the present technnique,Leap Motion Controller(LMC)has been introduced(LMC)to extract the human hand gestures and their parameters.Then these parameters are convereted into respective joint sapce angles using the presented mathematical model.The mathematical models for fingertip mapping,inverse kinematics,dynamics and trajectory generation are implemented and studied.Wolfman Mathematica 10 and MATLAB simulation framework are used to validate the mathematical models,simulations and developed control algorithms.The developed system has sucesfully imitated the fingertip motion.In particular,the system has been able to imitate the figretip motion with a deviation of 6.7%in X axis,5.5%in Y axis and7.9%in Z axis with respect to the expected position.展开更多
文摘Parkinson’s Disease(PD)is a neurodegenerative disease which shows a deficiency in dopaminehormone in the brain.It is a common irreversible impairment among elderly people.Identifying this disease in its preliminary stage is important to improve the efficacy of the treatment process.Disordered gait is one of the key indications of early symptoms of PD.Therefore,the present paper introduces a novel approach to identify pa rkinsonian gait using raw vertical spatiotemporal ground reaction force.A convolution neural network(CNN)is implemented to identify the features in the parkinsonian gaits and their progressive stages.Moreover,the var iations of the gait pressures were visually recreated using ANSYS finite element software package.The CNN model has shown a 97%accuracy of recognizing parkinsonian gait and their different stages,and ANSYS model is implemented to visualize the pressure variation of the foot during a bottom-up approach.
文摘Visual servoing is an active and popular area of research among roboticists.Eventhough visual servoing techniques enhance the perfomance,the associated systems still use traditional methods for their input control.Many research activities and applications have been carried out to implement effective and precise controlling of bilateral systems.This paper presents a 3D spresctroscope-based control technique for bilateral systems.The effectiveness of the available master side designs are evaluated against gesture-based techniques.Joystick control,Electromyography(EMG),Voice control,Haptic control,Exoskeleton control,Gesture and Brain Control Interface(BCI)are identified in the litreature as available bilateral inputs.In the present technnique,Leap Motion Controller(LMC)has been introduced(LMC)to extract the human hand gestures and their parameters.Then these parameters are convereted into respective joint sapce angles using the presented mathematical model.The mathematical models for fingertip mapping,inverse kinematics,dynamics and trajectory generation are implemented and studied.Wolfman Mathematica 10 and MATLAB simulation framework are used to validate the mathematical models,simulations and developed control algorithms.The developed system has sucesfully imitated the fingertip motion.In particular,the system has been able to imitate the figretip motion with a deviation of 6.7%in X axis,5.5%in Y axis and7.9%in Z axis with respect to the expected position.
