Physical Rehabilitation
A Corporate Project
In this cooperative project, a research team of eight members led by Professor Lee aimed to combine exercises for upper and lower limbs of human beings in rehabilitation training sessions as well as how to implement virtual reality (VR) to expand to four-limb coordination. The ultimate goal was to simulate users/ patients in recovery in coordination with VR technology. Helpful images were displayed on computer screens to involve users visually in the digitally created environments. The system provided amusing elements to accompany their rehabilitation process.
Assigned activities/Role Played
- Building environment scenes and inputting them into the Unity engine.
- Developing an algorithm to receive signals when different terrains, such as inclines or declines, are encountered in the environment to enhance/reduce force from the computer side onto the four-limb rehabilitation system.
Current difficulty
Algorithm: To detect any transformative changes when a user is walking through the terrain in the game engine and give the computer system a message to modify the force feedback experienced by the user in reality. An algorithm will be created specically to address this need. Due to unfamiliarity with computer science and programming, it required considerable time and effort to determine how to solve this diculty and complete the assigned task.