Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 08, 2016 - June 11, 2016
An aging population in Japan has resulted in increase in the number of aged wheelchair users. They usually have difficulties in daily life such as taking bath and going to a lavatory, and they need assistance with transferring task by others such as caregivers. The assistance of transferring makes heavy physical burden on caregivers because they need to lift the elderly, although transferring is important behavior to be deeply related to going to a lavatory and a bath. In this paper, we propose an assistive robotic system for transferring a patient between a wheelchair and a bed that is small size, user-friendly and simple mechanism.
