Augmented Reality with Application in Physical Rehabilitation
Yu Jin, João Monge, Octavian Adrian Postolache, Wangqiang Niu · 2019
Gait training is a significant part of physical rehabilitation for patients that suffer stroke events. AR (Augmented Reality) represents a promissory solution for training assessment providing information to the patients and physiotherapists about exercises to be done and the reached results. The paper presents an IOS application developed in unity 3D for stroke patients, immersing patients in a mixed environment that combine real-world and virtual objects. The human computer interface is materialized by an iPhone, head-mounted 3D display and a set of wireless sensors for physiological and motion parameters measurement. The position and velocity of the patient during the gait training is recorded by a smart carpet that includes capacitive sensors connected to a computation unit characterized by Wi-Fi communication capabilities. Several AR training scenarios and the corresponding experimental results are included in the paper.