Previous Notice Method of Robotic Arm Motion for Suppressing Threat to Human: Previous Announcement of the Three Dimensional Motion

摘要

It is expected that robots play an important role coexisting with human beings in the field of medical application, welfare one and so on. In such a case, the robot should not effect psychological threat to the human. This paper describe the method for the previous announcement of the robotic arm to reduce human's threat gainst the robot. The notice device is performed by lighting several LED markers attached at the endpoint of the robotic arm. The effectiveness for previous announcement of the three dimensional motion is investigated.