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Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurological disorder requiring early and accurate diagnosis for effective management. Machine learning (ML) has emerged as a powerful tool to enhance PD classification and diagnostic accuracy, particularly by…

The identification of individual movement characteristics sets the foundation for the assessment of personal rehabilitation progress and can provide diagnostic information on levels and stages of movement disorders. This work presents a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Tim Sziburis , Susanne Blex , Tobias Glasmachers , Ioannis Iossifidis

To enable safe and efficient human-robot collaboration in shared workspaces it is important for the robot to predict how a human will move when performing a task. While predicting human motion for tasks not known a priori is very…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-06-08 Jim Mainprice , Rafi Hayne , Dmitry Berenson

Remote magnetic sensing can be used to monitor the position of objects in real-time, enabling ground transport monitoring, underground infrastructure mapping and hazardous detection. However, magnetic signals are typically weak and complex,…

Human pose estimation involves detecting and tracking the positions of various body parts using input data from sources such as images, videos, or motion and inertial sensors. This paper presents a novel approach to human pose estimation…

In this paper, we present work in progress on activity recognition and prediction in real homes using either binary sensor data or depth video data. We present our field trial and set-up for collecting and storing the data, our methods, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Flavia Dias Casagrande , Evi Zouganeli

This work devises an optimized machine learning approach for human arm pose estimation from a single smartwatch. Our approach results in a distribution of possible wrist and elbow positions, which allows for a measure of uncertainty and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Fabian C Weigend , Shubham Sonawani , Michael Drolet , Heni Ben Amor

AR, a recent emerging technology, has been widely used in entertainment to provide users with immersive, interactive, and, sometimes, engaging experiences. The process of rehabilitation treatment and motor training process is often boring,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Chongyu Zhang

The utilization of digital health has increased recently, and these services provide extensive guidance to encourage users to exercise frequently by setting daily exercise goals to promote a healthy lifestyle. These comprehensive guides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Ji Fang , Vincent CS Lee , Hao Ji , Haiyan Wang

Upper limb movement classification, which maps input signals to the target activities, is a key building block in the control of rehabilitative robotics. Classifiers are trained for the rehabilitative system to comprehend the desires of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Zihao Wang , Ravi Suppiah

Robotic assistance presents an opportunity to benefit the lives of many people with physical disabilities, yet accurately sensing the human body and tracking human motion remain difficult for robots. We present a multidimensional capacitive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Zackory Erickson , Henry M. Clever , Vamsee Gangaram , Greg Turk , C. Karen Liu , Charles C. Kemp

The sport-related concussion (SRC) battery relies heavily upon subjective symptom reporting in order to determine the diagnosis of a concussion. Unfortunately, athletes with SRC may return-to-play (RTP) too soon if they are untruthful of…

In this research, we present an innovative method known as a physics-informed neural network (PINN) model to predict multi-joint kinematics using electromyography (EMG) signals recorded from the muscles surrounding these joints across…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Rajnish Kumar , Suriya Prakash Muthukrishnan , Lalan Kumar , Sitikantha Roy

Visual uncertainties such as occlusions, lack of texture, and noise present significant challenges in obtaining accurate kinematic models for safe robotic manipulation. We introduce a probabilistic real-time approach that leverages the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Adrian Pfisterer , Xing Li , Vito Mengers , Oliver Brock

Predicting the behavior of road users accurately is crucial to enable the safe operation of autonomous vehicles in urban or densely populated areas. Therefore, there has been a growing interest in time series motion prediction research,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Camiel Oerlemans , Bram Grooten , Michiel Braat , Alaa Alassi , Emilia Silvas , Decebal Constantin Mocanu

In this paper, we aim at improving human motion prediction during human-robot collaboration in industrial facilities by exploiting contributions from both physical and physiological signals. Improved human-machine collaboration could prove…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Stefano Tortora , Stefano Michieletto , Francesca Stival , Emanuele Menegatti

Wearable technology for the automatic detection of gait events has recently gained growing interest, enabling advanced analyses that were previously limited to specialist centres and equipment (e.g., instrumented walkway). In this study, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Matteo Gadaleta , Giulia Cisotto , Michele Rossi , Rana Zia Ur Rehman , Lynn Rochester , Silvia Del Din

In hazardous environments like nuclear facilities, robotic systems are essential for executing tasks that would otherwise expose humans to dangerous radiation levels, which pose severe health risks and can be fatal. However, many operations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Abdullah Alharthi , Ozan Tokatli , Erwin Lopez , Guido Herrmann

Purpose: Visually Guided Reaching (VGR) on the Kinarm robot yields sensitive kinematic biomarkers but requires 40-64 reaches, imposing time and fatigue burdens. We evaluate whether time-series foundation models can replace unrecorded trials…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Faranak Akbarifar , Nooshin Maghsoodi , Sean P Dukelow , Stephen Scott , Parvin Mousavi

This work presents an efficient algorithmic framework for real-time identification, classification, and evaluation of human physiotherapy exercises using mobile devices. The proposed method interprets a kinetic movement as a sequence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Stylianos Kandylakis , Christos Orfanopoulos , Georgios Siolas , Panayiotis Tsanakas