Robot-enhanced therapy: development and validation of a supervised autonomous robotic system for autism spectrum disorders therapy

Hoang Long Cao; Pablo Esteban; Madeleine Bartlett; Paul Edward Baxter; Tony Belpaeme; Erik Billing; HAIBIN CAI; Mark Coeckelbergh; Cristina Costescu; Daniel David; Albert De Beir; Daniel Hernandez Garcia; James Kennedy; HONGHAI LIU; Silviu Matu; Alexandre Mazel; Amit Kumar Pandey; Kathleen Richardson; Emmanuel Senft; Serge Thill; Greet Van de Perre; Bram Vanderborght; David Vernon; Kutoma Wakanuma; Hui Yu; Xiaolong Zhou; Tom Ziemke

doi:10.1109/MRA.2019.2904121

Robot-enhanced therapy: development and validation of a supervised autonomous robotic system for autism spectrum disorders therapy

Hoang Long Cao, Pablo Esteban, Madeleine Bartlett, Paul Edward Baxter, Tony Belpaeme, Erik Billing, HAIBIN CAI, Mark Coeckelbergh, Cristina Costescu, Daniel David, Albert De Beir, Daniel Hernandez Garcia, James Kennedy, HONGHAI LIU, Silviu Matu, Alexandre Mazel, Amit Kumar Pandey, Kathleen Richardson, Emmanuel Senft, Serge ThillGreet Van de Perre, Bram Vanderborght, David Vernon, Kutoma Wakanuma, Hui Yu, Xiaolong Zhou, Tom Ziemke

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Robot-assisted therapy (RAT) offers potential advantages for improving the social skills of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). This article provides an overview of the developed technology and clinical results of the EC-FP7-funded Development of Robot-Enhanced therapy for children with AutisM spectrum disorders (DREAM) project, which aims to develop the next level of RAT in both clinical and technological perspectives, commonly referred to as robot-enhanced therapy (RET). Within this project, a supervised autonomous robotic system is collaboratively developed by an interdisciplinary consortium including psychotherapists, cognitive scientists, roboticists, computer scientists, and ethicists, which allows robot control to exceed classical remote control methods, e.g., Wizard of Oz (WoZ), while ensuring safe and ethical robot behavior. Rigorous clinical studies are conducted to validate the efficacy of RET. Current results indicate that RET can obtain an equivalent performance compared to that of human standard therapy for children with ASDs. We also discuss the next steps of developing RET robotic systems.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	49-58
Number of pages	10
Journal	IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine
Volume	29
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2019.2904121
Publication status	Published - 9 Apr 2019

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The DREAM Dataset: Behavioural data from robot enhanced therapies for children with autism spectrum disorder
Billing, E. (Creator), School Of Engineering, C. A. M. (Contributor), Department Of Clinical Psychology And Psychotherapy, U. B. (Contributor), School Of Computing, U. O. P. (Contributor), Department Of Mechanical Engineering, V. U. B. (Contributor) & Robotics, S. (Contributor), University of Skövde, 23 Jul 2020
DOI: 10.5878/17p8-6k13, https://snd.gu.se/catalogue/dataset/snd1156-1/1
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Cao, H. L., Esteban, P., Bartlett, M., Baxter, P. E., Belpaeme, T., Billing, E., CAI, HAIBIN., Coeckelbergh, M., Costescu, C., David, D., De Beir, A., Hernandez Garcia, D., Kennedy, J., LIU, HONGHAI., Matu, S., Mazel, A., Pandey, A. K., Richardson, K., Senft, E., ... Ziemke, T. (2019). Robot-enhanced therapy: development and validation of a supervised autonomous robotic system for autism spectrum disorders therapy. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 29(2), 49-58. https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2019.2904121

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