歯科患者ロボット-患者ロボット自動化のための高機能インターフェイス-

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Recently, problems of low master of the techniques by students of department of Dentistry and trainees due to decreasing numbers of patients and increasing numbers of dentists are raised. To address the problems a dental patient robot that operates in a similar manner to an actual patient was developed. A robot arm that was equipped with the actuator was produced. As a result, the robot reproduced the patient's motion where the patient cannot endure the pain at treatment; "Brush-off motion" where the patient disturbs the dentist's treatment with an arm. As mentioned above, by practicing with the patient robot that was the functions to enact the changes in physical conditions which reproduces unexpected motion the trainee can acquire the recognition for danger in the odontotherapy. Moreover, a new interface to automate the practice was made so that the supervising doctor can easily operate the patient robot. By adding the function of the pain using a pressure sensor and voice recognition the patient robot can automatically react with motion.
2010-04-30