Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : May 10, 2017 - May 13, 2017
Walking assistance apparatus “RE-Gait®” was developed as a product. It assists the ankle joint motion while walking according to the phase of the user. By using it, apoplexy patients improve the gait, and when able bodied people use it, they can be promoted walking exercise. However, even though the physical assistance is provided, the feeling of the user affects the effectiveness of the device. Then the new control method of the walking assistance device according to the emotion was proposed. The targeted user's emotion evaluates by the two dimensional map, whose axes is pleasant or not and arousal or not from the analyzed data of brain wave, EMG and heartbeat. On the other hand, the walking condition also can be expressed by the two dimensional map. By grasping the relation between emotion map and walking condition map, the device can be controlled the user's emotion. In this paper, the control method using this relation is proposed and the example of the usage is shown.
