Picking up of robot's motion based activity data of elderly people through sensor information for RAA

Abstract

Robot assisted therapy/activity (RAT/A) has been recognized as one of effective method for elderly or senile dementia persons to accelerate the physical and mental rehabilitation. One of issues of current RAA is how the robot act in RAA. The method to select an animal-type robot's motion during RAA was focused in this paper. On the assumption that subject's would take almost same behavior to an animal-type robot, the subject's reactions to a robot's motion were described into two-dimensional map. Then, robot's motions were picked up by inverse analysis of the map. The method to select the robot's motion was exemplified by experiments (RAA) at a care facility