Planning, Execution and Monitoring of Physical Rehabilitation Therapies with a Robotic Architecture

Traditional methods of rehabilitation require continuous attention of therapists during the therapy sessions. This is a hard and expensive task in terms of time and effort. In many cases, the therapeutic objectives cannot be achieved due to the overwork or the difficulty for therapists to plan accurate sessions according to the medical criteria. For this purpose, a wide range of studies is opened in order to research new ways of rehabilitation, as in the field of social robotics. This work presents the current state of the THERAPIST project. Our main goal is to develop a cognitive architecture which provides a robot with enough autonomy to carry out an upper-limb rehabilitation therapy for patients with physical impairments, such as Cerebral Palsy and Obstetric Brachial Plexus Palsy.