障がい児の早期移動体験用全方向移動電動車いすの研究

－第4報 インテリジェントバンパの試作－

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Children with impaired motor function may be difficult to move on their own. Our research group produces a prototype of an omni-directional mobile electric wheelchair, that has high degree of freedom and can move close to the movement of healthy people, and offers it to children with disabilities. We can provide the easy and intuitive operation by the proposing omnidirectional mobile electric wheelchair. However, children with poor control skills may not be able to operate satisfactorily, and may collide with obstacles, and may not be able to escape from the collision state.

In this research, we considered “collision experience” as “learning opportunity” and worked on the development of an intelligent bumper that generates the safe collision and encourages the learning for escapes.