Abstract
Several guidance robots that safely guide for senior and handicapped persons at hospitals or welfare facilities have been developed. However, in order to guide a visually handicapped parsons safely, it is noted it that the implementation of the specific mechanism that was made to guide them should be required. In this study, we developed 2 kinds of guidance leads that conduct force information between user and the robot bidirectionally for our guidance robot. The characteristics of each guidance lead about usability and safety were evaluated by psychophysiological experiment.
