论文信息 - Proposal of human-friendly motion control: control design for power assistance tools and its application to wheelchair

Proposal of human-friendly motion control: control design for power assistance tools and its application to wheelchair

In this paper, we expand the human-friendly control concept, which has been restricted only to the robot controls into general assistive controls. For a demonstration of this generalized human-friendly control, we adopt a power-assisted wheelchair and apply a novel control to it. We investigate some requirements for this generalized human-friendly control and suggest solutions to it. Our solution approach consists of two parts: one is on the observation problem; the other is on the control problem. We pick up two problems, which happen in power-assisted wheelchair control by gravity. The first is the tendency of falling backward that is related to the observation problem, and the other is the difficulty in propulsion on a hill that is related to the control problem. We propose solutions to each problem, generalize them, and try to establish the human-friendly control.

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