Construction of tele-rehabilitation platform using distributed common object models
Journal
Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Journal Volume
1
Pages
518-523
Date Issued
2006
Author(s)
Abstract
Rehabilitation plays an important role in the future aging society. However, due to increasing aging population, the large amount of therapy efforts and spaces for rehabilitation may be not sufficient. Therefore, the tele-rehabilitation approach is proposed to resolve the shortages of physical therapists and rehabilitation spaces. The tele-rehabilitation is a technology that monitors and controls the rehabilitation equipments in efficient and convenient manners through the network to achieve remote rehabilitations. To achieve efficient and safe tele-rehabilitations, a real-time rehabilitation platform for database accessing, message exchange, signal and status monitoring, and remote manipulations of rehabilitation equipments are desired in this paper based on distributed object-oriented techniques. The proposed distributed object- oriented tele-rehabilitation platform also achieves the purposes of robustness and loading balance issues. In addition, a service allocation algorithm is proposed to dynamically balance the overall loading of each host server so that the service quality of the platform can be improved. The performance of the CPU and utilization of the dynamic memory of the host servers are all measured and recorded periodically as the bases of allocating new services and rejustifying executing services in real-time. Finally, the fault detection and recovery algorithm is proposed to construct robust tele-rehabilitation platform. Therefore, the proposed tele-rehabilitation platform achieves time-efficient and cost-effective purposes. ? 2006 IEEE.
Subjects
Algorithms
Patient treatment
Real time systems
Remote sensing
Distributed common object model
Remote monitoring and control
Tele-rehabilitation
Biomedical engineering
Type
conference paper