Abstract:
An apparatus includes a first wire and a second wire which are coupled to a right upper ankle belt and a right lower ankle belt, a third wire and a fourth wire which are coupled to a left upper ankle belt and a left lower ankle belt, an obtainer obtaining user information about a user and information about walking action of the user, and a controller controlling tensions of the first wire and the second wire at the same time and controlling tensions of the third wire and the fourth wire at the same time using a first stiffness target value corresponding to the first wire, a second stiffness target value corresponding to the second wire, a third stiffness target value corresponding to the third wire, and a fourth stiffness target value corresponding to the fourth wire that are determined based on the user information and the walk information.
Abstract:
A self-propelled robot includes: a force sensor for detecting a lateral force in a wheel axial direction of each of a left drive wheel and a right drive wheel when a main body travels straight; an acquisition unit that acquires left target speed and right target speed, respectively, for the left drive wheel and the right drive wheel; a correction amount calculation unit that calculates a left correction amount and a right correction amount for the left target speed and the right target speed, respectively, based on the corresponding lateral forces detected by the force sensor; a correction unit that corrects the left target speed and the right target speed, respectively, based on the left correction amount and the right correction amount; and a drive unit that drives the left drive wheel and the right drive wheel, respectively, based on the left target speed and the right target speed corrected by the correction unit.
Abstract:
A robot arm temporarily stops when a contact detector detects contact. A holding motion selecting unit then selects one of continuously stopped motion, directionally limited motion, and directionally unlimited motion in accordance with information including one or both of a distance between the robot arm and a contacted object and force applied to the robot arm by a person. A motion controller causes the selected motion to achieve holding motion.