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Seating System with Adjustable Sheet and Body Surface Measurement

Author(s) -

Takehito Kikuchi,

Isao Abe

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

journal of robotics and mechatronics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257

H-Index - 19

eISSN - 1883-8049

pISSN - 0915-3942

DOI - 10.20965/jrm.2016.p0079

Subject(s) - computer science , interface (matter) , sitting , simulation , body surface , measure (data warehouse) , pressure sensor , work (physics) , surface (topology) , computer vision , engineering , mechanical engineering , mathematics , geometry , medicine , database , bubble , pathology , maximum bubble pressure method , parallel computing

[abstFig src='/00280001/08.jpg' width=""220"" text='Wheel chair with adjustable sheets' ]The seat is an important interface between many types of machines and their users, able-bodied and disabled users alike. In this work, new seating system with adjustable sheets and body surface measurement is developed to improve the sitting postures and pressure distributions for patients with deformed backbones. A basic structure and adjustment method for the adjustable sheet is proposed. In addition, a way of using a Microsoft Kinect sensor to measure lengths is also developed and utilized to adjust the seating system. Evaluation tests are conducted on a healthy subject with different mock spinal deformations, and pressure distributions and postures of the subject are evaluated. The proposed method successfully averages pressure on the model and also adjusts his posture, simultaneously reducing pressure and increasing the contact area of the back.

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