日本福祉工学会誌 論文 概要

日本福祉工学会誌 Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 26-33 (2021)

手動式車いすの狭所作業効率化のための着脱式全方向移動機構の研究

永田 正伸,上田 育果,加藤 達也,松尾 和典

A Study of A Removable Omnidirectional Automotive Mechanism using A Manual Wheelchair for Movement Efficiency in Narrow Spaces

Masanobu NAGATA, Tomoka UEDA, Tatsuya KATO and Kazunori MATSUO

Wheelchairs are welfare support devices that are indispensable for the lives of people with disabilities, including the elderly who have lower limbs problems, and contribute significantly to the QOL of users. Manual wheelchairs can move in the front-back direction and turn, but cannot move in lateral or diagonal directions. Therefore, it is difficult to operate them in a narrow space. On the other hand, many studies on omnidirectional movement mechanisms have been studied so far, but in order to utilize these functions, it is essential to transfer from a manual wheelchair a person is using. In order to solve this problem, we have developed a removable omnidirectional automotive mechanism that can be attached to the wheelchair and detached from it instead of changing wheelchairs. In this paper, we show the configuration of the proposed omnidirectional movement mechanism and the verification of the omnidirectional movement accuracy of the prototype.

Key words:Wheel-chair, Omnidirectional, Removable