Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : May 10, 2017 - May 13, 2017
For elderly persons, their physical loads for housework are needed. In this study, joint torques as the physical loads when a house-worker swept a floor surface with a cleaning tool by three types of the cleaning motions were investigated by using a motion capture system and some force sensors and a fixed point camera in order to optimize the physical loads by housework. From the results, it was found that dusts were cleaned out in similar way by three types of cleaning motions. However, it was also found that the joint torques were different in accordance with the cleaning motions.
