Title :
Robotic food feeder
Author :
Takahashi, Yoshihiko ; Kikuchi, Yutaka ; Ibaraki, T. ; Ogawa, Shinobu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Syst. Design Eng., Kanagawa Inst. of Technol., Japan
Abstract :
A food feeder robot to assist elderly patients to eat food is proposed. A patient can bring the food into his mouth easily by using the man-machine interface with a CRT display and a mouse. The robot has a structure of a 3-DOF arm and a hand with a spoon and fork. A CCD camera is attached to the tip of the robot arm. By using a fabricated 1-DOF robot, the validity of the proposed control scheme using the man-machine interface is confirmed
Keywords :
handicapped aids; man-machine systems; manipulator kinematics; robot vision; user interfaces; 3-DOF arm; CCD camera; control scheme; food feeder robot; man-machine interface; robot vision; Cameras; Cathode ray tubes; Charge coupled devices; Charge-coupled image sensors; Displays; Mice; Mouth; Robot vision systems; Senior citizens; User interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
SICE Annual, 1999. 38th Annual Conference Proceedings of the
Conference_Location :
Morioka
Print_ISBN :
4-907764-13-8
DOI :
10.1109/SICE.1999.788683
