Wearable master device using optical fiber curvature sensors for the disabled

Author

Lee, Kyoobin ; Kwon, Dong-Soo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Seoul, South Korea

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

892

Abstract

This paper addresses a wearable master device for physically handicapped persons whose arms are disabled. Optical fiber curvature sensors are used to measure the human body motion. For the developed wearable master device, a calibration and mapping method of the sensors is proposed to extract 2-DOF human shoulder motions. An experiment shows that the wearable master device can be used for a 2-DOF input device effectively for handicapped persons. It has also shown that a subject can control a mobile robot with the wearable master device.

Keywords

calibration; curvature measurement; fibre optic sensors; handicapped aids; user interfaces; 2-DOF human shoulder motion extraction; 2-DOF input device; calibration; handicapped persons; human body motion measurement; mapping method; mobile robot; optical fiber curvature sensors; the disabled; wearable master device; Anthropometry; Arm; Calibration; Humans; Mobile robots; Motion measurement; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; Robot control; Wearable sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 2001. Proceedings 2001 ICRA. IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6576-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.2001.932663

Filename

932663