Center for Wheelchairs and Assistive Robotics Engineering

轮椅和辅助机器人工程中心

• 批准号: 9910071
• 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/9910071
• 关键词: Address; Advisory Committees; Aging; Awareness; Caring; Clinical Practice Guideline; Development; Devices; Disabled Persons; Discipline; Emerging Technologies; Engineering; Environment; Equipment; Expert Systems; Family Caregiver; Freedom; Goals; Healthcare Systems; Heart; Link; Measurable; Measures; Medical; Mentors; Military Personnel; 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; beneficiary; care delivery; career; design; disability; improved; improved functioning; improved mobility; industry partner; innovation; 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.

使用移动和操纵设备的残疾退伍军人 (VwD) 数量大量涌入 由于老龄化、医疗保健的改善提高了重伤和多发伤的存活率 导致多人残疾的人数超过了“持久自由”、“伊拉克自由”和“新黎明”行动。 250,000 名独特的 VwD 从 VA 假肢和感觉辅助服务 (PSAS) 获得了设备。 WARE 所做和努力实现的一切的核心始终是由退伍军人领导和实现的。 以退伍军人为中心，有大量退伍军人在多个层面上参与 WARE。 动作设计一直是 WARE 研发的核心 WARE 的重点。 将进行四个主题的研究和开发：（主题 1）智能设备应用，（主题 2） 先进轮椅设计，（主题3）辅助机器人和智能系统，以及（主题4）人类 机器接口将能力建设与消费者之声 (VoC) 和流程之声联系起来。 (VoP) 通过创建核心活动来促进 VwD 和 VA 的创新环境提出建议 显然，一些 VwD 和辅助技术提供商并不知道这一点很重要。 现有技术并要求随时了解 WARE 将测量的可用技术和新兴技术。 消费者、提供者和家庭/护理人员对可用产品、研究成果和临床的认识 实践指南并评估它们是否正在被使用培训下一代康复。 科学家和工程师是中心可以为长期福祉做出的最重要贡献之一 作为 VwD 的一员，WARE 致力于指导新的调查员（尤其是退伍军人），帮助他们 专注于 VwD 的成功职业生涯致力于保持辅助技术标准的领导者地位。 WARE 提议的研究、开发和核心活动将导致： VwD 改进的功能和流动性结果与 VA 的卓越蓝图保持一致。 促进退伍军人驱动的护理，解决弱势群体问题，将退伍军人管理局提升为首选提供者，目标 实现与私营部门相当或超过私营部门的护理服务，并使 VA 与学术合作伙伴保持一致。 WARE 将利用 VA 匹兹堡医疗保健系统 (VAPHS)、行业合作伙伴、 退伍军人服务组织和匹兹堡大学 (Pitt) 已经并将继续是。 专注于为使用轮椅和机器人的 VwD 做出切实且可衡量的改进 首要目标是将研究结果转化为整个退伍军人事务部并供退伍军人使用。 关键词（学科）：康复工程、物理医学与康复、 物理治疗。 关键词（研究重点）：智能设备应用、先进轮椅设计、辅助机器人 和智能系统、人机界面轮椅、辅助机器人、可穿戴和 连接的设备。