Method of Riding Skill Evaluation for Standing Type of Personal Mobility

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K18057
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Intelligent mechanics/Mechanical systems
• Research Institution: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
• Principal Investigator: Hashimoto Naohisa 国立研究開発法人産業技術総合研究所, ロボットイノベーション研究センター, 主任研究員 (20415730)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: Personal Mobility / Mobility Robot / Mobile Robot / Standing Type Vehicles

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The objective of this study was to propose riding skill evaluation method by referring the differences between skilled and unskilled subjects riding standing type vehicles. We set up the experimental vehicles, performed preliminary experiments with a few subjects and experiments with 28 subjects. We employed two standing type vehicles for the experiments. One is small, and the other is large. In the experiments, two types of subjects traveled the same course, and yaw, pitch, and roll data, and x-, y-, and z-acceleration data of each subject was gathered as riding data. In addition, time duration to finish the goal was evaluated. In particular, by using the t-value, it was found that there was a significant difference in the time duration between skilled subjects and unskilled subjects when using a large type standing type vehicle. Thus, if we analyze the skill level for using standing type vehicles, we should consider the time duration to complete a slalom course.

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