Review of Acupoints Positioning and Tracking Technology for Chinese Massage Robot

Abstract

Acupoints positioning and tracking technology (APTT) is the key technology of Chinese massage robot (CMR) and the premise to ensure the efficacy of massage. Research status of APTT are introduced, with emphasis on APTT based on vision, based on template matching (TM), and based on Back-Propagation neural network (BPNN). Moreover, the shortcomings of existing techniques and the prospect of the techniques are discussed in this paper.