scholarly journals Current Status and Consideration of Support/Care Robots for Stand-Up Motion

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1711
Author(s):  
Kensuke Nakamura ◽  
Norihiko Saga
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Care ◽  
Control Strategy ◽  
Active Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Power Equipment ◽  
Design Technique ◽  
Care Robots ◽  
Strategy Design ◽  
And Control

In order to make robots, which are expected to play an active role in the medical and nursing care fields in the future, more practical for use in rehabilitation, it is necessary to evaluate the current status of the design of these robots. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate the existing literature on standing motion assistance robots developed and reported to date and investigate each existing design technique from the perspectives of “Functions and Effects” and “Assist form and control.” Then, we search and investigate papers written in English on standing motion assistance robots reported from 2008 to 2019 and organize the contents of the relevant papers into their different assistance modes and four categories related to design. As a result, the standing motion assistance robots are classified into three assist modes: partial assistance, total assistance, and both. The assistance forms are roughly divided into two types: a wearable type and a non-wearable type. It is also demonstrated that both the assistance forms adopt the same trends in terms of the control strategy design and system I/O relationships. On the other hand, power equipment tends to be different between the two forms.

Dry chip feedrate control using online chip moisture

TAPPI Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (05) ◽  
pp. 295-305
Author(s):  
Wesley Gilbert ◽  
Ivan Trush ◽  
Bruce Allison ◽  
Randy Reimer ◽  
Howard Mason
Keyword(s):  
Production Rate ◽  
Control Strategy ◽  
Rate Control ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Dry Mass ◽  
The Other ◽  
Process Variability ◽  
Moisture Sensor ◽  
Feedback Control Strategy ◽  
And Control

Normal practice in continuous digester operation is to set the production rate through the chip meter speed. This speed is seldom, if ever, adjusted except to change production, and most of the other digester inputs are ratioed to it. The inherent assumption is that constant chip meter speed equates to constant dry mass flow of chips. This is seldom, if ever, true. As a result, the actual production rate, effective alkali (EA)-to-wood and liquor-to-wood ratios may vary substantially from assumed values. This increases process variability and decreases profits. In this report, a new continuous digester production rate control strategy is developed that addresses this shortcoming. A new noncontacting near infrared–based chip moisture sensor is combined with the existing weightometer signal to estimate the actual dry chip mass feedrate entering the digester. The estimated feedrate is then used to implement a novel feedback control strategy that adjusts the chip meter speed to maintain the dry chip feedrate at the target value. The report details the results of applying the new measurements and control strategy to a dual vessel continuous digester.

General Evaluation Method for Safety Control of Human-Care Robots

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koji Ikuta ◽  
Makoto Nokata ◽  
Hideki Ishii
Keyword(s):  
Control Strategy ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Safety Control ◽  
General Evaluation ◽  
Care Robots ◽  
Safety Design ◽  
New Type ◽  
Human Care ◽  
And Control

Abstract In this paper, the first danger-evaluation method for use in various kinds of control strategies for human-care robots is proposed. In the case of a careless collision between a robot and a human, impact force and impact stress are chosen as evaluation values, and a danger index is defined to quantitatively evaluate the effectiveness of each safety strategy used for control. As in the previous paper on safety design, this proposed method allows us to assess the contribution of each safety control strategy to the overall safety performance of a human-care robot. In addition, a new type of robot simulation system for danger-evaluation is constructed on a workstation. The system simplifies the evaluation of danger in both the design and control of human-care robots to quantify the effectiveness of various safety strategies. Here we describe the results obtained, the successful optimization of a safety control strategy for human-care robots.

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