Wireless intraoral tongue control of an assistive robotic arm for individuals with tetraplegia

Table 1 Results of tongue-controlled robotic grasping, number of trials = 10

Participant	Robot control method	Robot translational velocity [m/s]	Roll picked up [Times]	Roll touched but dropped [Times]	Completion time: Mean ± STD^b	No. of issued commands^a: Mean ± STD^b
E1	Direct actuator	0.20	8	2	71.3 ± 16.7	17.6 ± 5.5
E2	Cartesian endpoint	0.07	5	5	70.1 ± 15.3	6.0 ± 1.5

^aWhen the same command was issued several times in a row, it was only counted as one command. ^bSTD Standard deviation

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