Optimal posture control for stability of intelligent cane robot
- 1 September 2012
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Abstract
An intelligent cane robot (iCane) was designed for aiding the elderly who have muscle weakness on lower limbs. A commercial omni-directional wheels robot was used as an omni-directional mobile base, and an aluminum stick was installed on the base of cane robot. A Concept called “intentional direction (ITD)” was proposed for estimating the user's walking intention by analyzing the signal of a 6-axis force/torque sensor which is fixed to the handle of stick. A universal joint driven by two DC motors was designed to control the posture of the stick. As a care-nursing device, the cane robot was designed to assist the elderly in both indoor and outdoor environments. Therefore the size and weight of cane robot should be minimized. But in that case, there is high risk that the cane robot would be pushed over by the user. In this paper a constrained nonlinear multivariable algorithm was designed to optimize the stable posture of cane robot. By controlling the posture of stick, the maximums sufferable torque moment which lead to cane robot falling over can be increased. The experimental results show that the stability of cane robot can be enhanced effectively.Keywords
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