A Virtual Glove System for the Hand Rehabilitation based on Two Orthogonal LEAP Motion Controllers

Giuseppe Placidi, Luigi Cinque, Andrea Petracca, Matteo Polsinelli, Matteo Spezialetti

2017

Abstract

Hand rehabilitation therapy is fundamental in the recovery process for patients suffering from post-stroke or post-surgery impairments. Traditional approaches require the presence of therapist during the sessions, involving high costs and subjective measurements of the patients’ abilities and progresses. Recently, several alternative approaches have been proposed. Mechanical devices are often expensive, cumbersome and patient specific, while virtual devices are not subject to this limitations, but, especially if based on a single sensor, could suffer from occlusions. In this paper a novel multi-sensor approach, based on the simultaneous use of two LEAP motion controllers, is proposed. The hardware and software design is illustrated and the measurements error induced by the mutual infrared interference is discussed. Finally, a calibration procedure, a tracking model prototype based on the sensors turnover and preliminary experimental results are presented.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Placidi G., Cinque L., Petracca A., Polsinelli M. and Spezialetti M. (2017). A Virtual Glove System for the Hand Rehabilitation based on Two Orthogonal LEAP Motion Controllers . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM, ISBN 978-989-758-222-6, pages 184-192. DOI: 10.5220/0006197801840192

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icpram17,
author={Giuseppe Placidi and Luigi Cinque and Andrea Petracca and Matteo Polsinelli and Matteo Spezialetti},
title={A Virtual Glove System for the Hand Rehabilitation based on Two Orthogonal LEAP Motion Controllers},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM,},
year={2017},
pages={184-192},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006197801840192},
isbn={978-989-758-222-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM,
TI - A Virtual Glove System for the Hand Rehabilitation based on Two Orthogonal LEAP Motion Controllers
SN - 978-989-758-222-6
AU - Placidi G.
AU - Cinque L.
AU - Petracca A.
AU - Polsinelli M.
AU - Spezialetti M.
PY - 2017
SP - 184
EP - 192
DO - 10.5220/0006197801840192