| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 電控工程研究所 === 99 === Recently, the problem of aging population becomes more and more serious. How to take good care of the elderly is now an important issue around the world. Along with the progress of the medical technology, several robot walking helpers have been developed. It motivates us to develop a robot walking helper, named i-go, in our laboratory for assisting the lives of the elderly. In the thesis, based on navigation techniques previously proposed, we develop two guidance algorithms for passive walking helper, and realize them in our i-go. They are:(1)the position-controlling algorithm and (2)position and orientation-controlling algorithm. The former can guide the user to the desired position, and the latter not only guide the user to the desired position, but also to the desired orientation. The proposed guidance algorithms have been verified via the experiment. In future, we expect the i-go can assist the elderly for guidance in real environments. We will introduce the i-go to the Alzheimer’s patients, so that they can rely on it for movement under the conditions of memory decline and poor sense in orientation.
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