NDLI: A rehabilitation walker with standing and walking assistance

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Chugo, D. Tai Asawa Kitamura, T. Songmin Jia Takase, K.
Copyright Year	2008
Description	Author affiliation: Grad. Sch. of Inf. Syst., Univ. of Electro-Commun., Chofu (Chugo, D.; Tai Asawa; Kitamura, T.; Songmin Jia; Takase, K.)
Abstract	This paper proposes a robotic walker system with standing and walking assistance function. Our system focuses on domestic use for aged person who needs nursing in their daily life. Our key ideas are two topics. The first topic is combination of standing assistance function and walking assistance function. In previous works, many assistance devices are specialized in only ldquostanding-up operationrdquo or ldquowalking operationrdquo. However, in their daily life, elderly person needs standing, walking and seating assistance continuously by a same device. Our developing assistance system can support both operations by a small sized mechanism with low cost for domestic use. The second topic is steady standing assistance operation using an assistance manipulator and an active walker. In order to use the remaining physical strength of the patient, it is required to maintain the patientpsilas body posture which enables him to use own strength easily. According to the patientpsilas posture during standing up, our proposed system selects more appropriate device and controller, and realizes the standing assistance with steady posture of the patient based on the nursing specialists. The performance of our proposed system is verified by experiments using our prototype.
Starting Page	260
Ending Page	265
File Size	728012
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424420575
DOI	10.1109/IROS.2008.4650845
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2008-09-22
Publisher Place	France
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Force Knee Manipulators Force sensors Force control Actuators Legged locomotion
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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