Description
Design and development of engineering systems for healthcare has been a challenge both for engineers and healthcare personnel due to the differences in disciplines and mindset of engineers and clinicians. On one side, the engineers might not be well-informed about the application context and human factors in using the equipment, might not be familiar with patient preferences, and might not anticipate the day-to-day and subjective variations in use of equipment. On the other side, clinicians might not be aware of the available technical provisions and flexibilities and might not be familiar with alternative technical solutions which could easily address their needs. This tutorial will focus on robotic rehabilitation devices in healthcare highlighting the challenges in their design and will propose a design methodology that captures the healthcare specific requirements and informs the engineering processes with the healthcare notions. The tutorial will 1) introduce a new design approach for managing the communication, interaction, and collaboration of engineers and healthcare professionals, 2) introduce the concepts of physical and cognitive human-robot interfaces for wearable robots, along with ergonomic design principles of wearable robots for movement assistance and rehabilitation, 3) share the experiences of the co-design work run by the UK-wide project EMERGENCE with physio and occupational therapists, 4) and discuss a minimalistic approach towards designing, developing and validating rehabilitation robots to reduce complexities and costs for realistic translation to clinical practice. The tutorial will be enriched with selected oral and poster presentations on design methodology and experiences of design applied to rehabilitation robotics.URL to the Tutorial: https://sites.google.com/view/iros2025-rehabilitation-robot
| Period | 19 Oct 2025 |
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| Event type | Workshop |
| Conference number | IROS2025 |
| Location | Hangzhou, ChinaShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |