Basic Requirement for Transfer Robot

摘要

Currently bedridden persons are increasing in Japan and introduction of the robot for nursing care is asked for in order to reduce physical load of caretakers. Support for transferring the bedridden persons from bed to wheelchair and vice versa is strongly requested. In this research, we are aiming to design and produce transfer assisting robot using bilateral servo actuator to cope with the request. We report here on characteristics required for the actuator of the robot, simulation about operational performance, structure of main unit of the robot, requirements for operator-robot interface, and running part of the robot.