Affiliations: [a] Laboratory of Physics, School of Dentistry at Matsudo,
Nihon University, Chiba, Japan | [b] Gifu University, Japan | [c] Mie University, Japan
Correspondence:
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Corresponding author: S. Horihata, Laboratory of Physics, School
of Dentistry at Matsudo, Nihon University, 2-870-1 Sakaecho-nishi, Mtsudo,
Chiba 271-8587, Japan. E-mail: horihata.satoshi@nihon-u.ac.jp
Abstract: The lack of carers for senior citizens and physically handicapped
persons in our country has now become a huge issue and has created a great need
for carer robots. The usual carer robots (many of which have switches or
joysticks for their interfaces), however, are neither easy to use it nor very
popular. Therefore, haptic devices have been adopted for a human-machine
interface that will enable an intuitive operation. At this point, a method is
being tested that seeks to prevent a wrong operation from occurring from the
user's signals. This method matches motions with EMG signals.
Keywords: Physically handicapped person, meal support robot, arm operation system, EMG signal
