A Study on the Force-Reflection Joystick for Rehabilitation Assisting Robot

초록

Joystick is one of the mort popular input device for controlling mobile robot. However, common joystick has a problem that environmental information is not fed to the operator. When mobile robot is used as a rehabilitation support system, the disabled can get into danger by thes e problems. Vibrations of hands dropping joystick, or wrong operations by user for examples are very f atal for operator's safety. Therefore, we proposed force-reflection joystick method which provides obs tacle avoidance and easy obstacle-detection feedback to the operator.