Center for Wheelchairs and Assistive Robotics Engineering

轮椅和辅助机器人工程中心

• 批准号: 10716179
• 负责人: RORY A. COOPER
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10716179
• 关键词: Address; Advisory Committees; Aging; Awareness; Caregivers; Caring; Clinical Practice Guideline; Development; Devices; Disabled Persons; Discipline; Emerging Technologies; Engineering; Environment; Equipment; Expert Systems; Family; Freedom; Goals; Healthcare Systems; Heart; Link; Measurable; Measures; Medical; Mentors; Multiple Trauma; Outcome; Output; Personal Satisfaction; Physical Medicine; Physical therapy; Private Sector; Process; Prosthesis; Provider; Recommendation; Rehabilitation therapy; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Robotics; Scientist; Self-Help Devices; Sensory; Sensory Aids; Services; Surveys; Survival Rate; Technology; Training; Translating; Universities; User-Computer Interface; Veterans; Voice; Vulnerable Populations; Wheelchairs; assistive robot; beneficiary; care delivery; career; design; disability; functional improvement; improved; improved mobility; industry partner; innovation; military service; multiple disability; next generation; operation; programs; rehabilitation engineering; research and development; robotic system; service organization; severe injury

There is an influx in the number of Veterans with disabilities (VwD) using mobility and manipulation devices due to aging, improved medical care which has increased survival rates from severe injuries, and polytrauma resulting in multiple disabilities. Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and New Dawn account for over 250,000 unique VwD who received devices from VA Prosthetics and Sensory Aid Service (PSAS). Veterans are at the heart of everything that WARE does and strives to achieve. WARE has always been Veteran-led and Veteran-focused with a significant number of Veterans engaged with WARE at multiple levels. Participatory action design is and always has been the very heart of WARE’s research and development. The focus of WARE will be on research and development within four themes: (Theme 1) Smart Device Applications, (Theme 2) Advanced Wheelchair Design, (Theme 3) Assistive Robotics and Intelligent Systems, and (Theme 4) Human Machine Interfaces. WARE will link capacity building and Voice of the Consumer (VoC) and Voice of the Process (VoP) recommendations by creating core activities in promoting an innovation environment for VwD and VA clinicians. It is apparent that some VwD and assistive technology providers do not know that important technologies exist and asked to be kept informed about available and emerging technologies. WARE will measure consumer, provider, and family/caregiver awareness of available products, research outputs, and clinical practice guidelines and assess whether they are being used. Training the next generation of rehabilitation scientists and engineers is one of the most important contributions a Center can make to the long-term well- being of VwD. WARE is committed to mentoring new investigators (especially Veterans) to help them to successful careers focused on VwD. WARE is committed to remain a leader in assistive technology standards development and implementation. WARE’s proposed research, development, and core activities will result in improved function and mobility outcomes of VwD. WARE is aligned with the VA’s Blueprint for Excellence. It promotes Veteran-driven care, addresses vulnerable populations, elevates the VA as the provider of choice, aims to achieve care delivery that compares to or exceeds the private sector, and aligns the VA with academic partners. WARE will leverage the expertise developed by VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System (VAPHS), industry partners, Veterans Service Organizations, and the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt). WARE has been and will continue to be focused on making tangible and measurable improvements for VwD who use wheelchairs and robotics technologies. An overarching goal is to translate findings throughout VA and into use by Veterans. Keywords (Scientific Disciplines): Rehabilitation Engineering, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and Physical Therapy. Keywords (Research Foci): Smart Device Applications, Advanced Wheelchair Design, Assistive Robotics and Intelligent Systems, and Human Machine Interfaces Wheelchairs, Assistive Robotics, Wearable and Connected Devices.

使用移动性和操纵设备对残疾退伍军人（VWD）有影响 由于衰老，改善的医疗服务，这提高了严重受伤的存活率和多发性疾病 导致多种残疾。持久自由，伊拉克自由和新黎明的行动占了 250,000个独特的VWD，他们从VA假肢和感官援助服务（PSA）接收了设备。退伍军人是 Ware所做的一切并努力实现的核心。 Ware一直是经验丰富的， 以大量的退伍军人在多个级别上与之互动的退伍军人。参与性 动作设计一直是Ware研发的核心。 WARE的重点 将在四个主题中进行研究和开发：（主题1）智能设备应用程序，（主题2） 高级轮椅设计，（主题3）辅助机器人技术和智能系统，（主题4）人类 机器接口。 Ware将链接消费者的能力构建和声音（VOC）和该过程的声音 （VOP）通过在促进VWD和VA创新环境中创建核心活动来提出建议 临床医生。显然，一些VWD和辅助技术提供商不知道重要 存在技术，并要求将其通知可用和新兴技术。 Ware将测量 消费者，提供商，家庭/照顾者对可用产品，研究产出和临床的意识 练习指南和评估是否正在使用。培训下一代康复 科学家和工程师是中心可以为长期良好做出的最重要的贡献之一 是VWD。 Ware致力于为新的调查人员（尤其是退伍军人）提供帮助的人 成功的职业人士专注于VWD。 Ware致力于成为辅助技术标准的领导者 开发和实施。 Ware提议的研究，开发和核心活动将导致 VWD的功能和移动性结果改善。 Ware与VA的蓝图保持一致。它 促进以资深人士驱动的护理，解决脆弱人群，将VA提升为首选提供商，目标 为了获得与私营部门相比或超过私营部门的护理交付，并使VA与学术合作伙伴保持一致。 Ware将利用VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System（Vaphs），行业合作伙伴， 退伍军人服务组织和匹兹堡大学（皮特）。 Ware曾经并将继续 专注于对使用轮椅和机器人技术的VWD进行有形和可衡量的改进 技术。一个总体目标是将整个VA的发现转化为退伍军人的使用。 关键词（科学学科）：康复工程，物理医学和康复，以及 物理疗法。 关键字（研究焦点）：智能设备应用，高级轮椅设计，辅助机器人技术 和智能系统以及人机界面轮椅，辅助机器人技术，可穿戴和 连接的设备。