TY - GEN
T1 - Closed-Loop Platform for Human Movement Augmentation with Electrotactile Feedback
AU - Noccaro, Alessia
AU - Boljanic, Tanja
AU - Strbac, Matija
AU - Di Pino, Giovanni
AU - Formica, Domenico
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 IEEE.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - This work aims to fulfil and test Human Move-ment Augmentation with a closed-loop approach and a novel electrotactile feedback strategy. The user controls a Supernu-merary Robotic Arm by moving their foot, while receiving on their thigh electrotactile feedback conveying information on the robot's position. The feedback is provided through a matrix of 60 electrodes by stimulating different pads with different fre-quencies to represent 3D coordinates. A preliminary experiment was conducted with eight participants evenly distributed in Test and Control groups, who performed the task with and without electrotactile stimulation, respectively. After a learning phase, they were required to move the robot on targets displayed through augmented reality, without visual feedback of the robot. The Test group could rely on the electrotactile feedback and achieved fairly better performance than the Control group, with a success rate of 11±10% compared to the 8±5% of the Control group.
AB - This work aims to fulfil and test Human Move-ment Augmentation with a closed-loop approach and a novel electrotactile feedback strategy. The user controls a Supernu-merary Robotic Arm by moving their foot, while receiving on their thigh electrotactile feedback conveying information on the robot's position. The feedback is provided through a matrix of 60 electrodes by stimulating different pads with different fre-quencies to represent 3D coordinates. A preliminary experiment was conducted with eight participants evenly distributed in Test and Control groups, who performed the task with and without electrotactile stimulation, respectively. After a learning phase, they were required to move the robot on targets displayed through augmented reality, without visual feedback of the robot. The Test group could rely on the electrotactile feedback and achieved fairly better performance than the Control group, with a success rate of 11±10% compared to the 8±5% of the Control group.
KW - Electrotac-tile Feedback
KW - Human Movement Augmentation
KW - Supernumerary Robotic Limbs
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85208623857&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/BioRob60516.2024.10719916
DO - 10.1109/BioRob60516.2024.10719916
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85208623857
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics
SP - 795
EP - 800
BT - 2024 10th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2024
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 10th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2024
Y2 - 1 September 2024 through 4 September 2024
ER -