A Novel Concept of the Rehabilitation Training Coach Robot for Patients with Disability

Abstract

This paper proposes the rehabilitation treatment coach robot which will help at-home patients do their rehabilitation exercises at home without any professional trainers. The coach robot is designed to be cheap enough for patients to afford it. The robot suggests the rehabilitation program and corrects the posture of the patients during the exercise. The deep neural network is used for posture correction. Besides, the voice interface is applied for convenient interaction between robot and patients during the exercise. The emergency detection module is adopted which will inform doctors when emergency happens on patients. The emergency detection will be implemented using deep neural network on voice input and video input simultaneously. The detailed data collection plan for training deep neural network and performance evaluation plan are also provided in the paper.