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11 Safety Evaluation Method of Rehabilitation Robots

  • Part II Rehabilitation Robots for Assistance of Human Movements: II.2 Safety Issues of the Rehabilitation Robots
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Advances in Rehabilitation Robotics

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Science ((LNCIS,volume 306))

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An aged society comes soon. Human-care robots must be realized to nurse aged and disabled persons. Human-care robot will need to work around elderly people and give them touches; therefore conventional safety strategies for industrial robots can not be applied to human-care robots. It is now necessary to make a new study of safety in the space where a human and a machine will exist together.

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Z. Zenn Bien Dimitar Stefanov

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Nokata, M., Ikuta, K., Ishii, H. 11 Safety Evaluation Method of Rehabilitation Robots. In: Bien, Z.Z., Stefanov, D. (eds) Advances in Rehabilitation Robotics. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Science, vol 306. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10946978_11

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