Gaze-based teleprosthetic enables intuitive continuous control of complex robot arm use: Writing & drawing
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Author(s)
Dziemian, S
Abbott, WW
Aldo Faisal, A
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Eye tracking is a powerful mean for assistive technologies for people with movement disorders, paralysis and amputees. We present a highly intuitive eye tracking-controlled robot arm operating in 3-dimensional space based on the user's gaze target point that enables tele-writing and drawing. The usability and intuitive usage was assessed by a “tele” writing experiment with 8 subjects that learned to operate the system within minutes of first time use. These subjects were naive to the system and the task and had to write three letters on a white board with a white board pen attached to the robot arm's endpoint. The instructions are to imagine they were writing text with the pen and look where the pen would be going, they had to write the letters as fast and as accurate as possible, given a letter size template. Subjects were able to perform the task with facility and accuracy, and movements of the arm did not interfere with subjects ability to control their visual attention so as to enable smooth writing. On the basis of five consecutive trials there was a significant decrease in the total time used and the total number of commands sent to move the robot arm from the first to the second trial but no further improvement thereafter, suggesting that within writing 6 letters subjects had mastered the ability to control the system. Our work demonstrates that eye tracking is a powerful means to control robot arms in closed-loop and real-time, outperforming other invasive and non-invasive approaches to Brain-Machine-Interfaces in terms of calibration time (<;2 minutes), training time (<;10 minutes), interface technology costs. We suggests that gaze-based decoding of action intention may well become one of the most efficient ways to interface with robotic actuators - i.e. Brain-Robot-Interfaces - and become useful beyond paralysed and amputee users also for the general teleoperation of robotic and exoskeleton in human augmentation.
Date Issued
2016-07-28
Date Acceptance
2016-05-01
Citation
Proceedings of the 6th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), 2016, pp.1277-1282
ISBN
9781509032877
ISSN
2155-1774
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
1277
End Page
1282
Journal / Book Title
Proceedings of the 6th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob)
Copyright Statement
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Source
6th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob)
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2016-06-26
Finish Date
2016-06-29
Coverage Spatial
Singapore