Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : March 14, 2016 - March 15, 2016
Recently, the number of electric wheelchairs for the elderly persons have increased by the aging society. At the same time, the incidence of accidents by the electric wheelchair has been increasing. The main cause of the accident is considered to be operation mistake by the elderly.Therefore, we proposed a vehicle to perform a collision avoidance to surrounding pedestrians. Especially, gaze of the pedestrian is focused on. If the person notes the vehicle approaching, it is easy to avoid collision by pedestrians. Also by recognizing the pedestrian gaze, the vehicle is expected to realize smooth avoidance motion with prediction of the pedestrian behavior.In this paper, we develop the omni-directional personal vehicle with omni-wheels installed human gaze detection system. Finally, some of basic experiments for safety control with gaze detection are verified.
