Title :
Standing-on-floor type tea serving welfare robot using voice instruction system
Author :
Takahashi, Yoshihiko ; Iizuka, Takashi ; Ninomiya, Hidekazu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Syst. Eng., Kanagawa Inst. of Technol., Japan
fDate :
31 Aug-4 Sep 1998
Abstract :
A tea serving robot for bedridden people is proposed in this paper. The tea serving robot is a standing-on-the-floor type with light weight, requiring a small installation area, and can be easily moved. A robot arm and hand can grasp a tea cup and carry it three dimensionally. A weak stiffness cantilever arm is used as the robot arm in order to ease bedridden people´s tension. The bedridden person can easily catch and stop the robot arm and hand. The vibration reducing control of the robot arm is considered. The tea serving robot is actuated following the voice instruction. Therefore, the bedridden person can easily order the robot to carry a cup of tea
Keywords :
robots; vibration control; bedridden people; robot arm; robot hand; standing-on-floor type robot; tea serving robot; tea serving welfare robot; vibration reducing control; voice instruction system; weak stiffness cantilever arm; Aging; DC motors; Gears; Hospitals; Hydraulic actuators; Mechanical systems; Potentiometers; Robot control; Springs; Vibration control;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics Society, 1998. IECON '98. Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Aachen
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4503-7
DOI :
10.1109/IECON.1998.724272
