Telerehabilitation via a mobile robot

Teleoperated from a distant location, a mobile robot with some autonomous capabilities can become a beneficial tool in telerehabilitation applications. Safety being of prime concern in such settings, we took special care in coming up with the proper teleoperation interfaces that can provide pertinent information about the system states and conditions (objects, persons, free space, data, etc.) in conjunction with an efficient control system. In order to enhancement operatorpsilas performances we tested our new robot with three modalities of visual information presentation in the teleoperation interfaces, with the use of virtual reality for operator interfaces, in a setup reproducing home like environment.