Recovery and evaluation of locomotion function based on hand-holding support

2020 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 18H03558
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 90150:Medical assistive technology-related
• Research Institution: Kanagawa Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Saegusa Ryo 神奈川工科大学, 創造工学部, 准教授 (80386606)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-04-01 – 2021-03-31
• Keywords: 歩行 / リハビリ / ロボット

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We developed a walk assistive robot to support human walking based on hand chaining. The system of this robot is composed of the elements related to walk measurement, vital measurement and robot control. The investigation of these functions were also included in this research, where the walk measurement system extracted motion features from each step, and the vital measurement system recorded user's vital signals from a chaining hand. The control system allowed the robot to track and navigate a walking user based on haptic sensing through hand chaining.

Free Research Field

情報工学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究成果の学術的な意義は，動的な歩行環境で比較的容易に歩行機能を計測できる仕組みを実現した点である．歩行機能の定量的な計測は，計測装置が置かれたリハビリ室で行われることが多い．本研究の歩行支援ロボットでは，ロボットが対象者と共に移動して計測するため，計測の場所やタイミングに関する自由度が高い．手つなぎと手放しの形態移行や対象外の人物との衝突予防など，今後の現場導入に向けた配慮もなされている．