Study on biological reaction for safety farm work

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25660201
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Agricultural environmental engineering/Agricultural information engineering
• Research Institution: Utsunomiya University
• Principal Investigator: MATSUI Masami 宇都宮大学, 農学部, 准教授 (10603425)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): YAMASHITA Jun 松山短期大学, 教養部, 教授 (40036405) ; HAMAOKA Takafumi 立命館大学, スポーツ健康科学部, 教授 (70266518)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 農業機械 / 農作業安全 / 生体情報 / 脳波 / 脈波

Outline of Final Research Achievements

When an accident is about to happen, it is difficult for operators to avoid it quickly and handle the foreboding crisis effectively. So, an automatic shutdown of the agricultural machine may help prevent the accident from happening.
In this study, it was focused on biological reactions of operators to a crisis and attempted to obtain the time required to avoid an impending accident as well as the characteristics of biological reactions. In the experiments, the voltage waves of head part and breast part were obtained. And it was compared with the detection times of abnormal waves and the time of pressing button.
As a result, abnormal wave had been obtained in frontal head part, and it was the most quick (0.166 s) and clear wave. The detection time of the breast part wave was twice of frontal head part. The detection time of frontal head part was faster than the button press in 0.3 seconds. These results would be contributed to improve safety system for farm work.

Free Research Field

農業機械