2A1-H02 Verification of safety and convenience for person carrier robot : Analysis of driving situations with daily life of users(Demonstration experiments of personal mobility robots in Mobility Robot Special Zone of Tsukuba-city)

Abstract

In the aging society, one of the problems is the decreasing opportunity of going out by the limitation of their way of moving. In order to solve this matter, compact mobility and robot are remarkable as one of the solutions. We are aiming at developing a practical use of person carrier robot and its safety function in pedestrian space. For this purpose, we analyzed the risk in pedestrian area and developed "speed limit function" as a safety function. This safety function limits its speed depending on the risk such as the distance to the obstacles in order to avoid collision to obstacles. This paper reports the result of verification of the convenience and the safety of the robot in the special robot testing area in Tsukuba-city.