Walker with hand haptic interface for spatial recognition

Hashimoto, Hiroshi; Sasaki, Akinori; Ohyama, Yasuhiro; Ishii, Chiharu

doi:10.1109/amc.2006.1631677

Cited by 15 publications

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“…Smart walker interfaces range from direct interfaces such as a joystick [6] and modified handlebars [7] to indirect interfaces such as a gate detection system [8]. Direct interfaces that do not require any physical contact are particularly relevant to our research.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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SmartWalker: Towards an Intelligent Robotic Walker for the Elderly

Shin

Itten

Rusakov

et al. 2015

2015 International Conference on Intelligent Environments

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This paper presents SMARTWALKER and evaluates the appropriateness and usefulness of the walker and its gesture-based interface for the elderly. As a high-tech extension of a regular walker, the SMARTWALKER aims to assist its user intelligently and navigate around its environment autonomously. Equipped with sensors and actuators, the prototype accepts gesture commands and navigates around accordingly. The gesture-based interface uses a k-nearest neighbors classifier with dynamic time warping to recognize gestures and the Viola and Jones face detector to locate the user. We evaluated the walker with 23 residents and eight staff members at five different retirement homes in Zürich. The elderly found the SMARTWALKER useful and exciting, but few were willing to replace their walkers by robotic walkers. Their reluctance may stem from the walker's size and weight and their unfamiliarity with technology.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

SmartWalker: Towards an Intelligent Robotic Walker for the Elderly

Shin

Itten

Rusakov

et al. 2015

2015 International Conference on Intelligent Environments

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“…In literature, the most common algorithms apply mass/damped models [27,37], fuzzy logic control [10,35], or simple threshold/proportional algorithms [13,33,38].…”

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A review of the functionalities of smart walkers

Martins

Santos

Frizera

et al. 2015

Medical Engineering & Physics

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“…These interface can be broadly classified into direct and indirect types, according to whether the user's command or intention is directly passed to the walking devices. Direct interfaces include joysticks [19][20][21], switches and buttons [22,23] (or touch screens [24][25][26]), and voice communications [27,28]. To offer more sophisticate interactions, studies using force sensing and control are presented in [14,19].…”

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Design and control of JAIST active robotic walker

Lee

Ohnuma

Chong

2010

Intel Serv Robotics

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This paper presents the design and control of a novel assistive robotic walker that we call "JAIST active robotic walker (JARoW)". JARoW is developed to provide potential users with sufficient ambulatory capability in an efficient, cost-effective way. Specifically, our focus is placed on how to allow easier maneuverability by creating a natural interface between the user and JARoW. For the purpose, we develop a rotating infrared sensor to detect the user's lower limb movement. The implementation details of the JARoW control algorithms based on the sensor measurements are explained, and the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms is verified through experiments. Our results confirmed that JARoW can autonomously adjust its motion direction and velocity according to the user's walking behavior without requiring any additional user effort.

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Walker with hand haptic interface for spatial recognition

Cited by 15 publications

References 7 publications

SmartWalker: Towards an Intelligent Robotic Walker for the Elderly

SmartWalker: Towards an Intelligent Robotic Walker for the Elderly

A review of the functionalities of smart walkers

Design and control of JAIST active robotic walker

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