Development of Hand Free Maneuvering System for Electric Personal Vehicle

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K01494
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering
• Research Institution: National Institute of Technology, Kumamoto College
• Principal Investigator: Ohtsuka Hirofumi 熊本高等専門学校, 制御情報システム工学科, 教授 (10223869)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 柴里 弘毅 熊本高等専門学校, 制御情報システム工学科, 教授 (60259968)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 福祉工学 / 制御工学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Be anticipated to become super aging society, many research works about welfare support have been done. Among them, there are many attempts to develop the intelligent wheel chair to support the movement of physically handicapped person. In our research, we paid our attention to the movement that a motor-cycle rider moves his/her head naturally and is going to turn to the desired direction, try to develop the simplified detection method of non-contact and non-constraining operator’s upper body motion to maneuver the electric wheelchair without the influence of brightness of the surroundings. In addition, we develop interface to feed back the maneuvering status of the wheelchair in order to improve operability. Furthermore,
a heart rate variability (HRV) analysis based on Lorenz plot and a mean
distance measure has been applied. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Free Research Field

制御工学