This simulation describes a robot assisted rehabilitation concept, which is a demonstration of EU FP7 project Wear a BAN.
In traditional mirror therapy, patients place a mirror beside the unaffected limb,blocking their view of the affected limb, creating the illusion that both limbs are working normally.
This way mirror therapy might enhance recovery by enlisting direct visual stimulation showing the affected limb working properly, rather than relying on mental imagery alone.
In robot assisted mirror therapy, visual illusion and motor functioning is enhanced by robot assisted actual movements of the affected limb.
Besides the visual illusion, robot assisted mirror therapy also provides tactile sense of the movement.
The objective of Wear-a-BAN is to investigate and demonstrate ultra low-power wireless body-area-network (WBAN) technologies for enabling unobtrusive human to machine interfaces (HMI) into SME-driven market segments of smart fabrics / interactive textiles (SFIT), robotics for augmented reality assistance and rehabilitation, and natural interfacing devices for video gaming.
The proposed research will generate high societal and market impact for the European SMEs, and will enable major technological breakthroughs in the areas of ultra low-power radio system-on-chips (SoC) and of textile-oriented system-in-package (SiP) platforms for miniature wearable antennas, wireless and sensor electronics and digital signal processing.
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