Voice Controlled Humanoid Robot based Movement Rehabilitation Framework

This article presents a humanoid robot-based training software that is based on the widely used Nao humanoid robot of Aldebaran Robotics. The software is capable of recognize the patients and gives an option to the therapist to define different exercise series to be performed and analyzed by the software. To make the control easier, the new smartphone-based method would be introduced in this article. It can be followed the whole development and special system requirements; the most important system components and software libraries will be introduced without the need for completeness because of the scope limits. The proposed software, where the Nao Robot controlled via Android based smart phone interface has also been introduced to medical experts and get a positive response.