A study on young and elderly people´s working area of each arm on a table for dual manipulator with human arm motion characteristics

Author

Yoda, Mitsumasa ; Yoda, Asako ; Shiota, Yasuhito

Author_Institution

Coll. of Sci. & Technol., Nihon Univ., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2004

fDate

20-22 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

389

Lastpage

394

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to obtain the age characteristics of the human arm motion area for constructing a manipulator system, which having the same characteristics. In order to explore the basic data for constructing the manipulator, a human arm motion experiment was conducted. In this experiment, the motion of transferring an object on a table was employed as a target motion; especially the data about the characteristics of the area of using the right arm were collected. Before the experiment, dual manipulator system based on human arm size was constructed in order to introduce the characteristics of human arm motion. The analysis of human arm motion revealed that the area where the 50% using of right arm. The subjects of this experiment were elderly people and young people. Comparing the data of young and elderly people, we clarified the age characteristics of the human arm motion area.

Keywords

geriatrics; human computer interaction; manipulators; motion estimation; service robots; age characteristics; dual manipulator system; elderly people working area; human arm motion analysis; human arm motion characteristics; human arm size; target motion; young people working area; Biomedical engineering; Collaborative work; Educational institutions; Human robot interaction; Magnets; Manipulators; Motion analysis; Postal services; Senior citizens; Wrist;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2004. ROMAN 2004. 13th IEEE International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8570-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROMAN.2004.1374792

Filename

1374792