Development and Testing of a Wearable Vibrotactile Haptic Feedback System for Proprioceptive Rehabilitation
The human sense of touch is an integral part of daily life. For tasks involving grasping and manipulation of objects, force feedback is a key requirement. Most of the systems give contact point or complete grasping force feedback; for precision grasping and other physical interactions, finger awaren...
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| author | Rumshaa Yunus Sara Ali Yasar Ayaz Mushtaq Khan Shamsa Kanwal Uzma Akhlaque Raheel Nawaz |
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| description | The human sense of touch is an integral part of daily life. For tasks involving grasping and manipulation of objects, force feedback is a key requirement. Most of the systems give contact point or complete grasping force feedback; for precision grasping and other physical interactions, finger awareness and force feedback from independent fingers is essential. In this study a novel, wearable proprioceptive rehabilitation system is designed which restores the ability of identifying and distinguishing between individual fingers of a prosthetic hand or an exoskeleton in a non-invasive manner. Moreover, it provides different levels of force feedback from every finger as well, which enables the user to distinguish and control force in precision grasping activities. For testing the system accuracy, classical psychophysical methods were used on a group of 14 voluntary disabled subjects. The tests were conducted in both, ideal and real-world conditions i.e. without and with distractions and accuracies were calculated accordingly. A p-test was also conducted to observe significance between the samples of with and without distraction datasets. The system performed with an overall accuracy of 82.04% which was well above the min. performance measure of 60%. Vi-HaB is standalone system and can be mounted on any upper limb rehabilitation (prosthesis, exoskeleton) system for finger awareness and force feedback. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-675ef592692f42d38b1e3e245c2b26b82022-12-21T20:29:55ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362020-01-018351723518410.1109/ACCESS.2020.29751499003282Development and Testing of a Wearable Vibrotactile Haptic Feedback System for Proprioceptive RehabilitationRumshaa Yunus0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7263-5182Sara Ali1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5100-9430Yasar Ayaz2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8495-5733Mushtaq Khan3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8316-9754Shamsa Kanwal4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0442-8317Uzma Akhlaque5https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5925-9696Raheel Nawaz6https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9588-0052Department of Robotics and Intelligent Machines, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (SMME), National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, PakistanDepartment of Robotics and Intelligent Machines, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (SMME), National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, PakistanDepartment of Robotics and Intelligent Machines, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (SMME), National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, PakistanSchool of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, PakistanOccupational Therapy Department, Armed Forces Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, Rawalpindi, PakistanPhysical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Armed Forces Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, Rawalpindi, PakistanSchool of Computing, Mathematics and Digital Technology, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, U.K.The human sense of touch is an integral part of daily life. For tasks involving grasping and manipulation of objects, force feedback is a key requirement. Most of the systems give contact point or complete grasping force feedback; for precision grasping and other physical interactions, finger awareness and force feedback from independent fingers is essential. In this study a novel, wearable proprioceptive rehabilitation system is designed which restores the ability of identifying and distinguishing between individual fingers of a prosthetic hand or an exoskeleton in a non-invasive manner. Moreover, it provides different levels of force feedback from every finger as well, which enables the user to distinguish and control force in precision grasping activities. For testing the system accuracy, classical psychophysical methods were used on a group of 14 voluntary disabled subjects. The tests were conducted in both, ideal and real-world conditions i.e. without and with distractions and accuracies were calculated accordingly. A p-test was also conducted to observe significance between the samples of with and without distraction datasets. The system performed with an overall accuracy of 82.04% which was well above the min. performance measure of 60%. Vi-HaB is standalone system and can be mounted on any upper limb rehabilitation (prosthesis, exoskeleton) system for finger awareness and force feedback.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9003282/Wearablehapticsvibrotactileforce feedbackpsychophysicsrehabilitation |
| spellingShingle | Rumshaa Yunus Sara Ali Yasar Ayaz Mushtaq Khan Shamsa Kanwal Uzma Akhlaque Raheel Nawaz Development and Testing of a Wearable Vibrotactile Haptic Feedback System for Proprioceptive Rehabilitation IEEE Access Wearable haptics vibrotactile force feedback psychophysics rehabilitation |
| title | Development and Testing of a Wearable Vibrotactile Haptic Feedback System for Proprioceptive Rehabilitation |
| title_full | Development and Testing of a Wearable Vibrotactile Haptic Feedback System for Proprioceptive Rehabilitation |
| title_fullStr | Development and Testing of a Wearable Vibrotactile Haptic Feedback System for Proprioceptive Rehabilitation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Development and Testing of a Wearable Vibrotactile Haptic Feedback System for Proprioceptive Rehabilitation |
| title_short | Development and Testing of a Wearable Vibrotactile Haptic Feedback System for Proprioceptive Rehabilitation |
| title_sort | development and testing of a wearable vibrotactile haptic feedback system for proprioceptive rehabilitation |
| topic | Wearable haptics vibrotactile force feedback psychophysics rehabilitation |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9003282/ |
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