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

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

31 Aug-4 Sep 1998

Firstpage

1208

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.1998.724272

Filename

724272