Proposal of Human-friendly motion control -control design for power assistance tools and its application to wheelchair

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Abstract

In this paper, we expand the human-friendly control concept which has been restricted only to the robot controls into general assistive controls. For a demonstration of this generalized human-friendly control, we adopt a power-assisted wheelchair and apply a novel control to it. We investigate some requirements for this generalized human-friendly control and suggest solutions to it. Our solution approach consists of two parts: one is on the observation problem, the other is on the control problem. We pick up two problems which happen in power-assisted wheelchair control by gravity. The first is the tendency of falling backward that is related to the observation problem, and the other is the difficulty in propulsion on a hill that is related to the control problem. We propose solutions to each problem, generalize them, and try to establish the human-friendly control.

Original languageEnglish
Pages436-441
Number of pages6
StatePublished - 2004
EventIECON 2004 - 30th Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society - Busan, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 2 Nov 20046 Nov 2004

Conference

ConferenceIECON 2004 - 30th Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityBusan
Period2/11/046/11/04

Keywords

  • Compliance control
  • Flexible disturbance attenuation
  • Gravity compensation
  • Human-friendly control
  • Multisensor
  • Power-assisted wheelchair
  • State observer
  • Steady state kalman filter
  • Two-degree-of-freedom control

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