Abstract
This paper proposes the human body motion interface for personal mobility vehicle including the user's twisting motion. First, saddle is attached on the personal mobility vehicle using the seat post which has the universal joints at the attachment portion. The universal joints have three rotational joints where the potentio meters are attached on each. By hip motion, the joints are moved. The potentio meters detect these rotations. Next, we introduced the sigmoid function to connect the motion of hip and the velocity of the personal mobility vehicle. Finally, the experiment was conducted to confirm the usability. In the experiment, the control interface was prepared which doesn't use the twisting motion of the hip. The subjects drive the personal mobility vehicle on the figure 8 course layout by using proposed interface and control interface. The lap times were measured in both interface and compared. After driving the vehicle, the paired preference test was conducted. The lap time using proposed interface was shorter than the control interface, and the paired preference test showed the proposed interface is intuitive.
