TY - GEN
T1 - Design and implementation of a mechatronic SmartBed for improved rehabilitation
AU - Onchi, Eiji
AU - Penaloza, Christian
AU - Cuellar, Francisco
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/5/19
Y1 - 2016/5/19
N2 - Healthcare demand for hospital beds is a concern in both private and public institutions. Conventional beds are cumbersome and do not consider caregiver's health, nor patient's stress and discomfort, which have consequences on the rehabilitation process. For these reasons, a mechatronic SmartBed system is proposed, designed with a user-friendly interface that empowers the patient and caregiver to move the bed into complex positions that improves the person's quality of life and reduce the risk of death. In this paper, the details of the design and development process of the SmartBed, with special focus on the interactive user interface for controlling the system, along with preliminary results of the interaction between test subjects and the hospital bed is presented.
AB - Healthcare demand for hospital beds is a concern in both private and public institutions. Conventional beds are cumbersome and do not consider caregiver's health, nor patient's stress and discomfort, which have consequences on the rehabilitation process. For these reasons, a mechatronic SmartBed system is proposed, designed with a user-friendly interface that empowers the patient and caregiver to move the bed into complex positions that improves the person's quality of life and reduce the risk of death. In this paper, the details of the design and development process of the SmartBed, with special focus on the interactive user interface for controlling the system, along with preliminary results of the interaction between test subjects and the hospital bed is presented.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84974530425&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICIT.2016.7474978
DO - 10.1109/ICIT.2016.7474978
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84974530425
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology
SP - 1482
EP - 1487
BT - Proceedings - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, ICIT 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, ICIT 2016
Y2 - 14 March 2016 through 17 March 2016
ER -