Abstract
The healthcare and entertainment area is one of the concerning area for a service robotics. So we are focusing to the service robot system for the entertainment and healthcare of human being. In this paper, we suggest the riding robot system that is a riding robot like as a horse, and the rider can to enjoy the riding motion include the walking motion, running motion, turning the direction, and checking the health conditions. These health conditions include the horseman's weight, blood pressure, and pulse and heartbeat used by the specially designed bio-handle mechanism. In order to generate the riding motions like as a horse, we developed the 3 DOF saddle mechanisms for the entertainment that are simulating the motions of pitch, roll, and bounce. And the reins and spur mechanism are developed which is to feedback the intention of horseman like as the start of walking, running, stopping, and turning of direction. And also, the bio-handle mechanism for the healthcare are developed which is to check the user's weight, blood pressure, pulse and heartbeat for intention of horseman like as the start of fast walk, stop, and turn to the left or right direction. In order to evaluate the performance and healthcare service of the developed riding robot system, we evaluated the three kind of riding motion like as the low speed, middle speed, and high speed riding motion. And also, the healthcare services of users are tested.
