Abstract
This paper proposes a seating position adjustment assistance system for our developing robotic walker. Our assistance walker focuses on domestic use for aged person who needs nursing in their daily life. From questionnaires of nursing specialists, an adjustment operation of the accurate position for seating is usually difficult for elderly people and this operation has high risk of falling down. Thus, we develop the assistance system which can assist the aged users to adjust the seating position safety. For maximizing a rehabilitation performance, we design that the patient walks to the target chair by himself and the assistance system specializes only a seating position adjustment assistance before sitting down. The performance of our proposed system is verified by experiments using our prototype.
