Abstract
The increasing number of the elderly who need long-term care or rehabilitation has become a serious issue in JAPAN. To maintain the quality of life, it is important for the elderly to conserve his or her strength. We have been developing an exercise support system which consists of an exercise instructor robot and an exercise evaluation equipment. Three kinds of exercises are contrived and implemented to the robot. The robot shows one of the exercises to a user visually and verbally. The user follows the exercise, and the motion is detected and evaluated. The evaluation is fed back to the robot motion and speech. The developed system was applied to home-visit rehabilitation. In this paper, we focus on the implementation of the exercise instructor robot. We show an example so that the motion of the user improved with the exercise evaluation feedback.
