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- Title
PROGRAMMING THE NAO HUMANOID ROBOT FOR BEHAVIORAL THERAPY IN ROMANIA.
- Authors
NICOLAE, GEORGIAN; VLĂDEANU, CĂLIN; SARU, LISA-MARIE; BURILEANU, CORNELIU; GROZĂVESCU, RALUCA; CRĂCIUN, GABRIELA; DRUGĂ, IMONA; HĂŢIŞ, MIRELA
- Abstract
Robots have been designed to take over people's activities that involve repeated and high physical effort. As they are equipped with increasingly powerful computing units, the robots have begun to be programmed and used for complex tasks, involving more decision making and a more accurate mechanical control. In particular, humanoid robots are used for various assistance or human interaction applications. Among medical applications with humanoid robots, one of the most complex is that of therapy for children with psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. Thus, the use of robots is motivated by several factors that increase therapeutic efficiency: children are attracted to toys, but also to technology, predictability of a device / robot's actions facilitates the learning process, etc. The difficulty of this therapy is given by the need to use a complex robot, whose architecture needs to develop motor / gestural, verbal and even cognitive skills. In this paper, we will present the details of implementation on the Nao robot platform of behavioral therapy programs for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) used in a specialized clinic. In the first part of this paper, some representative papers from the literature address the problem of the use of robots in the therapy of children with ASD. In the second part, the technical capabilities of the Nao robot are presented. Nao is a humanoid, with a height of 58 cm, which can perform complex movements using the hands and feet and is equipped with numerous sensors that facilitate human-robot interaction: tactile sensors, proximity sensors, video cameras, microphones, etc. The third part is dedicated to presenting the Nao robot programming and configuration methods and the solutions chosen to implement the application. Also, we describeour Android application that allows the therapist to control the robot throughout all stages of therapy: choosing the program from therapy, choosing / changing the requirement and the item, give rewards, etc. In the last part, some conclusions and perspectives of these research activities are outlined.
- Subjects
ROMANIA; ANDROID (Operating system); HUMANOID robots; BEHAVIOR therapy; CHILDREN with autism spectrum disorders; ROBOT programming; HUMAN-robot interaction; ARTIFICIAL skin
- Publication
Romanian Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2019, Vol 7, Issue 1/2, p23
- ISSN
2360-185X
- Publication type
Article