J1102-3-3 上肢負担が軽減される路面環境適応型杖の開発(ライフサポート3:移乗支援・歩行支援)

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In elder dominated society, a lot of life support robota have been studied. We have also developed a robotic cane which adapts road surface condition and reduces the user's burden to the upper limb. In this paper, at first, the concept and the prototype of the robotics cane is introduced. Secondly, two kinds of the experiment are conducted by three elder people who always use the cane ; 1) Evaluation of adaptability of different road surface conditions such as down slope and step, and 2) Evaluation of burden to the shoulder and elbow joints using traditional T-shape cane, multilegged cane and developed multilegged cane. As the results, it was confirmed that developed multilegged cane was able to adapt slope and step and decrease the burden to the upper limb.
2009-09-12