Design of a pneumatic soft actuator controlled via eye tracking and detection

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Ademola Abdulkareem¹  Victoria Oguntosin² 

[1] Department of Electrical &Corresponding author.;

关键词: Biomedical engineering;    Electrical engineering;    Data visualization;    Computer engineering;    Robotics;    Materials characterization;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This work describes the control of a pneumatic soft robotic actuator via eye movements. The soft robot is actuated using two supply sources: a vacuum pump and an air supply pump for both negative and positive air supply sources respectively. Two controlled states are presented: the actuation of the vacuum and air pump. Through eye positioning and tracking on the graphical user interface to actuate either pump, a control command is directed to inflate or deflate the pneumatic actuator. The potential of this application is in rehabilitation, whereby eye movements are used to control a rehabilitation-based assistive soft actuator rather than ON/OFF electronics. This is demonstrated in this work using an elbow based rehabilitation soft actuator.

【 授权许可】

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