移乗介護用ベッド分離型移動車の開発

抄録

In Japan, where an aging society progresses, the demand for care services is increasing. At the same time, physical load of care staff is also increasing. Especially, low back pain caused by transfer assisting is frequently reported. In order to reduce low back pain risk of care staff, we propose a transfer assisting vehicle separable from a bed. This vehicle is able to undock from care bed, and the mobile function enables users to freely move like an electric wheelchair. As the first phase of the development, we made up a prototype of the vehicle, and implemented a control system using a joystick.