抄録
When some handicapped people take meals by themselves, it is necessary to support them in order not to fail their eating. For this support, we are developing a robotic spoon, which controls itself intelligently and supports the user's eating. For the design, we took the movies of the eating movements of the handicapped people from three directions and analyzed their characteristics. The rotational angles and the moving velocities of the spoon were obtained, and their correlations with eating failures were investigated. From these results, we discussed the control method of the robotic spoon.
