1. Design of a pneumatic soft actuator controlled via eye tracking and detection
- Author
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Victoria Oguntosin and Ademola Abdulkareem
- Subjects
0301 basic medicine ,Eye tracker controlled actuator ,Computer science ,Soft robotics ,Structural analysis ,Soft robot ,Article ,law.invention ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Air pump ,law ,Computer engineering ,Pneumatic actuator ,lcsh:Social sciences (General) ,lcsh:Science (General) ,Pleated network design ,Simulation ,Corrugated actuator ,Multidisciplinary ,business.industry ,Data visualization ,Materials characterization ,Tobii tracker 4c with soft actuator ,Robotics ,030104 developmental biology ,Electrical engineering ,Eye gaze system for control ,Vacuum pump ,Eye tracking ,Robot ,lcsh:H1-99 ,Artificial intelligence ,business ,Actuator ,Biomedical engineering ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,lcsh:Q1-390 - Abstract
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., Biomedical Engineering; Electrical Engineering; Data Visualization; Computer Engineering; Robotics; Materials Characterization; Structural Analysis; pneumatic actuator; soft robot; pleated network design; corrugated actuator; eye tracker controlled actuator; eye gaze system for control; tobii tracker 4c with soft actuator
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- 2020