Estimation of hemiplegia by gripping force distribution

Is this study, to assist walking motion for elderly people and disabled people, robotics-based assist technologies are important. Toward to realize such technologies, we have developed cane-type walking assist robot. In this paper, in order to establish a method to estimate the posture of the operator from the distribution information of the force applied to the handle of the robot, a preliminary experiment is performed to detect the presence or absence of hemiplegia of the operator.