Abstract
At present child development and pediatric rehabilitation is an emerging and challenging research field in the context of potential application and development of socially interactive robots [1]. The research inspired by psychological and pedagogical theories, as well as by recent achievements in robotics and assistive technology, has resulted in a variety of dedicated robots, experimental techniques, and evaluation methods. The robots range from mobile platforms of simple shape to humanoidal dolls [1], [2] and are equipped with a rich set of sensors and actuators. Their behaviours are purely reactive and the corresponding software architecture is based on the behaviour based paradigm.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Michaud, F., Salter, T., Duquette, A., Laplante, J.F.: Perspectives on mobile robots used as tools for pediatric rehabilitation. Assistive Technologies (2005)
Dautenhahn, K., Werry, I.: Towards interactive robots in autism therapy. background, motivation and challenges. Pragmatics & Cognition 12(1) (2004) 1 – 35
Michaud, F., Caron, S.: Roball – an autonomous toy rolling robot. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Interactive Robot Entertainment. (2000)
Salter, T., Boekhorst, R.T., Dautenhahn, K.: Detecting and analyzing children’s play styles with autonomous mobile robots: A case study comparing observational data with sensor readings. The 8th Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-8) (2004)
Salter, T., Michaud, F., Dautenhahn, K., Letourneau, D., Caron, S.: Recognizing interaction from a robot’s perspective. American Association for Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Arent, K., Kaba la, M., Wnuk, M.: Towards the therapeutic spherical robot: design, programming and control. In: 8th IFAC Symposium SyRoCo. (2006)
Wnuk, M.: Koala – an interactive spherical robot assisting in therapy of autistic children. In: Advances in Robotics. Systems and Cooperation of Robots. WKL (2006) (in Polish).
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc: (±1.5g - 6g Three Axis Low-g Micromachined Accelerometer) MMA7260Q Technical Data Rev. 1.
ENC-03J. Piezoelectric Gyroscopes GyroStar. http://www.murata-europe.com. (2004)
MPX4200A Integrated Silicon Pressure Sensor. (http://e-www.motorola.com) catalogue card.
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc: Electric Field Imaging Device MC33794 Technical Data Rev. 8.0. (2005)
Murray, R.M., Li, Z., Sastry, S.S.: A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation. CRC Press, Inc. (1994)
Matysek, W., Muszy´nski, R.: Mathematical Model of Nonholonomic Spherical Mobile Robot RoBall. In: Cybernetics of Robotic Systems. WKL (2004)
Van den Broek, T.: Design of a simulation toolbox for a therapeutic robot. Technical report. (2007)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2007 Springer London
About this paper
Cite this paper
Arent, K., Wnuk, M. (2007). On Simulator Design of the Spherical Therapeutic Robot Koala. In: Kozłowski, K. (eds) Robot Motion and Control 2007. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 360. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-974-3_26
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-974-3_26
Publisher Name: Springer, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-84628-973-6
Online ISBN: 978-1-84628-974-3
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)