914 視覚障害者用補助歩行インターフェース(オーガナイズドセッション : 社会に貢献するメカトロニクス)

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Recently, welfare engineering attracts attention along with aging society. A tendency is observed such that much independent rehabilitation support and the care for the handicapped person at home are starting along with the revision of the long-term-insurance law. Authors have been studying about the travel guide interface which aimed at the life space expansion for the sight handicapped person. The transmission of the surrounding conditions and the surrounding obstacle avoiding method using the tactile sense and recognition have been reported specially as a sight substitutions interface. In this study, we adopted miniature electromagnetic relays instead of the step motor, which used as the tactile stimulus part, and a basic experiment was done about the method which transmitted surrounding distance information by the pulse vibration. This paper reports about the humans' fundamental recognition characteristic for this tactile interface and the walking experiment result.
一般社団法人日本機械学会の論文
2000-09-08