日本ロボット学会誌
Online ISSN : 1884-7145
Print ISSN : 0289-1824
ISSN-L : 0289-1824
37 巻, 2 号
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  • 谷 勇希, 田崎 良佑, 寺嶋 一彦
    2019 年 37 巻 2 号 p. 161-167
    発行日: 2019年
    公開日: 2019/03/20
    ジャーナル フリー

    In this paper, we develop a walking control system for a mobile body-weight support walker (i.e.Niltwamor;Novel Intelligent Lift-Type Walking-Assist Mobile Robot). Niltwamor is a walker capable of omni-directional movement and lifting control. First, the abdominal surface of the gait trainee is measured by the RGB-D camera, and the measured point cloud is subjected to elliptical fitting on the horizontal plane. Based on center position and direction of the approximated ellipse, the position coordinate and direction of the gait trainee are estimated. Based on that,Niltwamor tracks the trainee with proportional control. And therefore,it is possible to track the walking in all directions, and it is possible for Niltwamor to perform walking training with high degree of freedom without directly operating by the trainee. The effectiveness of the proposed system was verified by actual machine experiments for healthy subjects. With respect to estimation accuracy, the estimation error on the direction in the range of use is about 15[deg]. Then, as a result of tracking accuracy, the RMSE (Root Mean Square Error) of the position is about 9[cm] and the RMSE of the direction is about 8[deg].

  • 谷 直行, 姜 銀来, 東郷 俊太, 横井 浩史
    2019 年 37 巻 2 号 p. 168-178
    発行日: 2019年
    公開日: 2019/03/20
    ジャーナル フリー

    In this paper, we discuss the development of a joint flexion mechanism for a myoelectric prosthetic hand that realizes stable power grasps and precision grasps. A number of studies on myoelectric prosthetic hands have been reported. For instance, a two-degree-of-freedom (2DOF) myoelectric prosthetic hand with high practicality has been described. It is capable of realizing the minimum required grip motion in daily living tasks. However, power grasping and precise grasping with the 2DOF myoelectric prosthetic hand are unstable because the joint angles of the fingers are fixed. To solve this problem, we proposed two joint flexion mechanisms: (i) the so-called PIP joint flexion mechanism, consisting of a wire pulling mechanism that flexes and extends the PIP joint of four fingers to realize form closure in a power grasp; (ii) an elastic joint implementing surface contact at the fingertip based on stability from the potential energy method in precision grasp. This is a passive mechanism incorporating a tension spring in the DIP joint of the thumb, index finger, and middle finger. Moreover, we developed the force and form closure (FFC) hand equipped with the PIP joint flexion mechanism and the elastic joint on the 2DOF myoelectric prosthetic hand and conducted evaluation experiments. By comparing experimental results of the FFC hand and the 2DOF myoelectric prosthetic hands, we proved that the proposed mechanisms can perform stable power grasping and precision grasping.

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