Development of motorized shoes for wearable personal mobility operated by human posture angle

We have developed a wearable mobility and the interface to control the mobility, which is operated according to motions of lower legs of a wearer with the mobility. They are small wheeled mobile robots, which are mounted at sole of the both feet. In this paper, we introduce the developed mobility and propose a new interface to handle the mobility instinctively for the wearer with the mobility. Then, in experiments we show that it is can easy to perform following motions with the mobility, going front and backward motion, walking motion, turn, going up/down in the step motion, and striding over some obstacles.