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This paper describes Cybi, an inexpensive smart companion mobile robot for elderly and disabled people. The software architecture that enables users to perform telepresence and teleoperation tasks with Cybi is based on combining Cloud Computing technologies and Fuzzy Logic. On one hand, the robot can be remotely teleoperated from a thin client by executing a specific module of a distributed software...
According to statistics data, the population of many countries is aging. Moreover, there is also a small sector of the population that is affected by disabilities. Researchers should develop systems to improve their quality of life. In recent years, the development of smartphones and reduced size devices, but with high processing capacity, has increased dramatically. We can take profit of the sensors...
An electronic -- mechanical game was developed for elderly and disabled people so that they could have an enjoyable way to train their cognitive functions. Because our players were not familiar with electronic games, we proposed constraints and requirements to the game so that they were able to play the game and were willing to play repeatedly. Here, we describe our proposed game, gIkiiki-pom,h...
For supporting daily activities of elderly and physically disabled people who have lost their body functioning of motions, we have developed a 7-DOF robotic exoskeleton system. It is intended to assist the motions of shoulder and elbow by mounting this on a wheel chair since human shoulder and elbow motions are involved in a lot of activities of everyday life. The proposed mechanism can maximize workspace...
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is an emerging bundle of technologies and services that has been specially conceived to support disabled and elderly people to be more autonomous in their daily life. Support for mobility is a key aspect in AAL, and makes elderly people feel very independent and socially integrated. This paper describes an AAL solution to support elderly people outside home: provides...
This paper describes a novel driving control scheme of electric power assisted wheelchairs based on human characteristics learning. ??Electric power assisted wheelchair?? which assists the driving force by electric motors is expected to be widely used as a mobility support system for elderly people and disabled people. However, some handicapped people such as paralysis of the muscles of one side of...
This paper describes a novel capacitor regenerative braking control scheme of electric powered wheelchairs for efficient driving on downward slopes. ??Electric powered wheelchair?? which generates the driving force by electric motors is expected to be widely used as a mobility support system for elderly people and disabled people, however, the energy efficiency has to be further improved because it...
In this paper we propose totally flexible organic field effect transistors (OFETs) assembled on plastic films as sensors for mechanical variables. In the first part, mechanical sensors for pressure and bending detection are presented. A sharp and reversible sensitivity of the output current of the device to an elastic deformation induced by means of a mechanical stimulus on the device channel has...
This paper proposes a novel regenerative braking control system of electric wheelchairs for senior citizen. ldquoElectric powered wheelchairrdquo, which generates the driving force by electric motors according to the human operation, is expected to be widely used as a mobility support system for elderly people. This study focuses on the braking control to realize the safety and smooth stopping motion...
This paper presents the PAS-Arm (passive assist arm), a novel assist arm based on passive robotics. PAS-Arms are intended for direct physical interaction with a human operator. PAS-Arms are physically passive. Their purpose is not to enhance human strength but to produce specified but arbitrary two-dimensional guiding surfaces that constrain and guide the motion of the human operator. PAS-Arms have...
Summary form only given. In the coming advanced age society, an innovative technology to assist the activities of daily living of elderly and disabled people and the heavy work in nursing is desired. A wearable power assist robot is one of effective approaches as such technology, which is equipped to the human body to assist the muscular force. Since this kind of robot directly acts on the human body,...
In the coming advanced age society, an innovative technology to assist the activities of daily living of elderly and disabled people and the heavy work in nursing is desired. To develop such a technology, an actuator safe and friendly for human is required. It should be small, lightweight and has to provide a proper softness. A pneumatic rubber artificial muscle is available as such actuators. We...
It is widely acknowledged that computer is powerful tool to improve the quality of life of the people with disability. One problem is how the user manipulates the computer using suitable input device designed for him or her. This paper proposes tow pointing devices based on vision for the people with disability as input devices. These devices detect the position of the marks attached on the users...
The demand for rehabilitation robots is increasing for the upcoming aging society. Power-assisting devices are considered promising for enhancing the mobility of elderly and disabled people. Other potential applications are for muscle rehabilitation and sports training. The main focus of this paper is to control the load of selected muscles by using a power-assisting device, thus enabling ldquopinpointedrdquo...
Recent years have shown impressive growth in the development of pervasive healthcare systems, which are primarily being designed to provide emergency and preventive healthcare to citizens anywhere/anytime using wired and wireless mobile technologies. This paper presents an e-healthcare framework with pervasive sensor network for the disabled and elderly people. A home healthcare server collects user...
The usage of conventional assistive cane devices is critical in reducing the risk of falls, which are particularly detrimental for the elderly and disabled. Many of the individuals that experience the greatest risk of falling rely on cane devices for support of ambulation. However, the results of many studies have shown that incorrect cane usage is prevalent among cane users. The original SmartCane...
Music therapy addresses physiological, cognitive, and social needs of individuals and employs music to enhance quality of human lives through creation of positive changes. In this paper, we consider applying music therapy to human-computer interfaces, based on quality of life supporters (QLS) of self-explanatory type, and oriented to elderly and disabled people. QLS are multi-modal communicators for...
This paper describes a novel smooth and stable driving trajectory generation scheme for electric powered wheelchair based on the third order spline curve. Electric powered wheelchair moved by the right and left electric motors based on the human's joystick input is expected to be widely used as a mobility support system for elderly people and disabled people. As one of the high performance control...
A versatile, reliable and inexpensive home automation system is presented, suited for assisting and monitoring elderly and disabled people in home daily living. A smart interface module has been fabricated, which allows for straightforward integration of a wide variety of devices in a standard LAN. A pilot installation provides successfully HW and SW validation.
We suggest to develop the tendon-driven 2-link manipulator driven by pneumatic cylinder as the assist care lift for the rising and sitting on a chair of elderly people, disabled people or wheelchair users. The tendon-driven manipulator system developed in this subject makes use of the pneumatic cylinder as an actuator. By means of the flexible action caused by the compressibility of the air, the welfare...
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