Development of Intention Detection and Control System for Robot Walking Helper

Abstract

In current aging society, robot walking helpers play an important role in improving the activities of daily living of the elders. In this paper, we develop an intention detection and passive control system for a robot walking helper. For safe manipulation, the robot can obtain user's walking intention by identifying the foot image and adopt a braking control law on the wheels to differentially steer the robot. Experiments are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed system.