재활복지공학회논문지 (Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology)

한국재활복지공학회 (Rehabilitation Engineering And Assistive Technology Society of Korea)
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전동 보행보조기의 편의성 향상을 위한 제어기 설계

Design of the control Algorithm for Improvement of the Convenience the Active-type Walking Aid

  • 투고 : 2011.11.14
  • 심사 : 2011.12.26
  • 발행 : 2011.12.31
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본 논문은 전동 보행보조기의 편의성 향상을 위한 최적의 제어 이득을 찾고 제어 알고리즘을 설계하였다. 최근 노인의 인구가 의료 기술의 발달로 급속히 증가되고 있으며, 다양한 이동형 보행보조기구는 삶의 질을 개선하기 위해 개발되고 있다. 이러한 이동형 제품 중 수동형 보행보조기는 노인의 보행의 힘을 도와주는 전동모터를 가지고 있지 않아 노인들이 충분한 근력이 없기 때문에 경사로 및 문의 문턱 등 고르지 않는 지형에서 이동하는데 제안사항이 있다. 이러한 상황을 극복하기 위해 전동타입의 보행보조기를 개발하였다. 전동형 보행보조기는 수동형과 다르게 사용자가 조작을 해야 모터가 구동되는 구조이다. 이러한 구조는 사용자가 조작을 잘못 하였을 경우 상당한 불편함을 사용자에게 준다. 이러한 전동형 보행보조기를 수동형 보행보조기와 비교하여 조작의 편의성을 판단하고 기준을 만들어 사용자의 편의성에 대하여 제어 값을 변경하면서 사용자 편의성을 개선하였다. 본 논문에서는 보행의지를 인식하고 편의성의 성능을 측정할 수 있는 방법인 햅틱 센서를 소개하며 편의를 개선하는 제어 알고리즘을 제안한다. 또한 편의성의 평가는 COV(Center of Vehicle)와 사용자의 COP(Center of Position)과의 차이의 변화를 통해 상대적인 편의성을 평가하였다. 전동 타입 보행보조기와 새로운 측정방법을 도입하여 모든 과정을 실험을 통하여 확인 하였다.

This paper aims to find the optimal control gain for enhancing the convenience of electric walking frames and design a control algorithm. With the recent advances in medical technology, there has been a rapid increase in the aging population and a variety of mobile walking frames have been developed for improvement of the quality of life. However, the manual walking frames of such mobile aids don't have any electric motor which helps facilitate elderly users' walking and thus are not efficient enough for the old people of weak strength to use especially when moving on uneven surfaces such as slopes or thresholds. The types of electric walking frames have been developed to overcome such inefficiency. Electric walking frames require users' control operations for motor driving unlike manual frames. Therefore, when they are not properly handled, it causes considerable inconvenience to their users. The present study compared the electric walking frames with manual ones in terms of operational convenience and attempted to improve the user convenience of walking frames varying the control value for user convenience based on certain standards. This paper presented a haptic sensor designed to recognize the will to walk and measure the degree of convenience and proposed a control algorithm for improvement of convenience. For user convenience, this paper evaluated the relative convenience of walking frames in view of changing differences between the center of vehicle (COV) and the center of position (COP). With the employment of an electric walking frame and a new measuring method, all the processes were experimentally tested and validated.

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