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We have developed a simple self-transfer aid robotic system and have conducted psychological evaluation experiments regarding the horizontal movement of the device. The users targeted are people with impaired walking ability who use a wheelchair, however are still able to walk to some extent. With the self-transfer aid robotic system, these users can maneuver themselves independently to and from a...
We have been developing a Universal Mobile robot for Assistive tasks (UMA). The aim of UMA is to assist elderly and disabled person in an indoor location. UMA is able to transport daily use objects by following the user. This paper presents an early construction of UMA and experimental result of following a user using visual tracking as a first step.
This paper proposes an easy human interface device to operate an assist robot for a severely handicapped person. A quadriplegic patient can move a mouse pointer on a personal computer display using a head space pointer, and can click it with the newly designed input device which uses patient's cheek movement. The input device uses a fiber sensor to detect the patient's cheek movement. The human interface...
A simple self-transfer aid robotic system is proposed, and the evaluations on the human's physical burdens when using a transfer aid robotic system are presented in this paper. A person with weak leg muscles who uses a wheel chair is assumed to be the target user. By using the self-transfer aid robotic system, a user can transfer between a wheel chair and a toilet, for example. The proposed self-transfer...
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