Yasamin Moghbelan

Dr. Yasamin Moghbelan


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Academic Career Length

3Years (2024-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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10 December 2024 in Applied Sciences
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YMYasamin Moghbelan
Yasamin Moghbelan
AEAlfonso Esposito
Alfonso Esposito
IZIvan Zyrianoff
Ivan Zyrianoff
Giulia SpalettaGiulia Spaletta
Giulia Spaletta
SBStefano Borgo
Stefano Borgo
MFMarco Di Felice
Marco Di Felice
The Internet of Things (IoT) is gaining increasing attention in healthcare due to its potential to enable continuous monitoring of patients, both at home and in controlled medical environments. In this paper, we explore the integration of IoT with human-robotics in the context of motor rehabilitation for groups of patients performing moderate physical routines, focused on balance, stretching, and posture. Specifically, we propose the I-TROPHYTS framework, which introduces a step-change in motor rehabilitation by advancing towards more sustainable medical services and personalized diagnostics. Our framework leverages wearable sensors to monitor patients’ vital signs and edge computing to detect and estimate motor routines. In addition, it incorporates a humanoid robot that mimics the actions of a physiotherapist, adapting motor routines in real-time based on the patient’s condition. All data from physiotherapy sessions are modeled using an ontology, enabling automatic reasoning and planning of robot actions. In this paper, we present the architecture of the proposed framework, which spans four layers, and discuss its enabling components. Furthermore, we detail the current deployment of the IoT system for patient monitoring and automatic identification of motor routines via Machine Learning techniques. Our experimental results, collected from a group of volunteers performing balance and stretching exercises, demonstrate that we can achieve nearly 100% accuracy in distinguishing between shoulder abduction and shoulder flexion, using Inertial Measurement Unit data from wearable IoT devices placed on the wrist and elbow of the test subjects.