TY - GEN
T1 - Motions of Propelling a Wheelchair Based on the Movement Function of People with Spinal Cord Injury
AU - Ogata, Kunihiro
AU - Hasegawa, Shingo
AU - Nakayama, Tsuyoshi
AU - Matsuhira, Nobuto
AU - Ono, Eiichi
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT This study was partially supported by JSPS KAK-ENHI Grant Number JP25282181(Development Dummy Humanoid Robot), JP15H01765 and JP18H03564(Development of Evaluation Method). The authors would like to thank T. Kinoshita, M. Seko and K. Seino for useful measuring ROM and MMT, and staff of hospital and training center in NRCD.
PY - 2019/4/25
Y1 - 2019/4/25
N2 - Some persons with spinal injuries use manual or electric wheelchairs to allow them to move independently. Their body shape and body function tends to be changed due to their disability. The purpose of this study was to assist in the development of functional and fashionable clothes that can encourage social participation of persons with disabilities. Here, we evaluated the comfort level of such clothes when using wheelchair by using a dummy robot. First, the motion of propelling a wheelchair and the body function, such as range of motion and manual muscle test, of persons with spinal cord injuries were evaluated, and the motion patterns were classified. Next, the average motion patterns were generated for a dummy robot based on the measurement results. While the dummy robot performed the motions of propelling a wheelchair, the forces acting on the arm were measured and used to evaluate the potential comfort of the functional clothing.
AB - Some persons with spinal injuries use manual or electric wheelchairs to allow them to move independently. Their body shape and body function tends to be changed due to their disability. The purpose of this study was to assist in the development of functional and fashionable clothes that can encourage social participation of persons with disabilities. Here, we evaluated the comfort level of such clothes when using wheelchair by using a dummy robot. First, the motion of propelling a wheelchair and the body function, such as range of motion and manual muscle test, of persons with spinal cord injuries were evaluated, and the motion patterns were classified. Next, the average motion patterns were generated for a dummy robot based on the measurement results. While the dummy robot performed the motions of propelling a wheelchair, the forces acting on the arm were measured and used to evaluate the potential comfort of the functional clothing.
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U2 - 10.1109/SII.2019.8700439
DO - 10.1109/SII.2019.8700439
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85065665412
T3 - Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2019
SP - 385
EP - 390
BT - Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2019 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2019
Y2 - 14 January 2019 through 16 January 2019
ER -