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This paper proposes a sensing system for detecting the accident at a space between bed fences. The number of accidents of elderly people on the bed has increased rapidly. Especially, there are a lot of fatal accidents that relate to the bed fence. For instance, some elderly people choked to death because their necks were caught in a space between the bed fences. To prevent such accidents, the full...
This paper proposes a two-link segment model of a standing human controlled by reflex and voluntary movements. Time responses of body sway in physiological experiments are replicated by the simulation using the two-link model. Simulating a decline of human standing ability due to aging, we clarify the relation between the cause of falling and loss of function in old age.
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