Current robotic technology shows promise in improving medical monitoring routines. In this work, we present an example of automatic monitoring and analysis of human gait in the Timed Up and Go test, using the Microsoft Kinect 2 sensor. The approach was implemented in the mobile robot developed during the MARIO (Managing active and healthy Aging with use of caRing servIce rObots) project, with the aim to assess the risk of falling through daily measurements of temporal and spatial gait parameters. Thanks to the robot's capability to approach the user in an unstructured environment, the mobility measurements can be obtained passively, in normal daily activity, without any patient's instruction. We describe the technique used to extract gait parameters from the Kinect 2 data and present some of the performance results.

Skeleton Timed Up and Go on MARIO Robot

Vitanza A.
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Pagliuca P.;Cantucci F.;Nolfi S.
2023

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Current robotic technology shows promise in improving medical monitoring routines. In this work, we present an example of automatic monitoring and analysis of human gait in the Timed Up and Go test, using the Microsoft Kinect 2 sensor. The approach was implemented in the mobile robot developed during the MARIO (Managing active and healthy Aging with use of caRing servIce rObots) project, with the aim to assess the risk of falling through daily measurements of temporal and spatial gait parameters. Thanks to the robot's capability to approach the user in an unstructured environment, the mobility measurements can be obtained passively, in normal daily activity, without any patient's instruction. We describe the technique used to extract gait parameters from the Kinect 2 data and present some of the performance results.
2023
Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione - ISTC
Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione - ISTC - Sede Secondaria Catania
979-8-3503-0080-2
Assistive Robotics
Clinical Test
MARIO Robot
Mobility Assessment
Timed Up and Go Test
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Descrizione: A. Vitanza, P. Pagliuca, F. Cantucci and S. Nolfi, "Skeleton Timed Up and Go on MARIO Robot," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering (MetroXRAINE), Milano, Italy, 2023, pp. 1171-1176, doi: 10.1109/MetroXRAINE58569.2023.10405769
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