Seating System with Adjustable Sheet and Body Surface Measurement

Takehito Kikuchi; Isao Abe

doi:10.20965/jrm.2016.p0079

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JRM Vol.28 No.1 pp. 79-85

doi: 10.20965/jrm.2016.p0079

(2016)

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Seating System with Adjustable Sheet and Body Surface Measurement

Takehito Kikuchi and Isao Abe

Faculty of Engineering, Oita University
700 Dannoharu, Oita 870-1192, Japan

Received:

March 21, 2015

Accepted:

January 8, 2016

Published:

February 20, 2016

Keywords:

seating, wheelchair, adjustable sheet, pressure averaging, posture adjustment

Abstract

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.

Wheel chair with adjustable sheets

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T. Kikuchi and I. Abe, “Seating System with Adjustable Sheet and Body Surface Measurement,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.28 No.1, pp. 79-85, 2016.

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