The DREAM RET System
This repository covers a software system for Robot Enhanced Therapy (RET) aimed to treat children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). This system was developed within the research project DREAM: Development of Robot-enhanced Therapy for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, funded by the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission, grant 611391. The project started in April 2014 and finished March 2019.
This software system is described in detail in Cai et al. (2019). See also Esteban et al. (2017) and Cao et al. (2019) for a broader presentation of this approach to autism therapy.
Public Documents
Documentation
The main documentation is found in the DREAM Wiki.
The DREAM RET System is built on the robotic's middleware YARP, and is thus a component based system. Component documentation can be found in DREAM/release/doc/component_doc/index.html. This documentation has been generated using Doxygen and can be rebuilt to reflect changes made by modifying the included doxygen config file and re-running doxygen.
Licence
Unless otherwise specified, all software created as Copyright © DREAM is to be regarded as Open Source under the GPLv3 licence. In this project there are several third party software libraries that are covered under their own licences. Please check the source files for more details.
Acknowledgment
This work is part of the DREAM project funded by the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7), grant #611391.
References
Cai, H., Fang, Y., Ju, Z., Costescu, C., David, D., Billing, E. A., … Liu, H. (2019). Sensing-enhanced Therapy System for Assessing Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Feasibility Study. IEEE Sensors Journal, 9(4), 1508–1518. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2018.2877662
Cao, H. L., Esteban, P., Bartlett, M., Baxter, P. E., Belpaeme, T., Billing, 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. https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2019.2904121
Esteban, P. G., Baxter, P., Belpaeme, T., Billing, E. A., Cai, H., Cao, H., … Ziemke, T. (2017). How to Build a Supervised Autonomous System for Robot-Enhanced Therapy for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics, 8(1), 18–38. https://doi.org/10.1515/pjbr-2017-0002