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A Study on the DOA, Accuracy and Facial Impact of Food Assist Robot for the Elderly and the Disabled

Sunwoo Yuk 1, Jei Cheong Ryu 1, InHo Hwang 1, Sungbae Jung 1, Junghoon Hwang 2, Woojin Yu 3, and Inhyuk Moon 4
1. Korea Orthopedics and Rehabilitation Engineering Center, 26 Gyeongin-ro 10beon-gil, Bupyeong-gu, Incheon 21417, Korea
2. Korea Electronics Technology Institute, 655 Pyeongcheon-ro, Wonmi-gu, Bucheon-si, Gyeonggi-do 14502, Korea
3. Korea Testing Laboratory, 87 Digital-ro 26-gil, Guro-gu, Seoul 08389, Korea
4. Dong-Eui University, 176 Eomgwang-no, Busanjin-gu, Busan 47340, Korea

Abstract—Industrial robots were operated in an independent environment and did not expose humans to direct danger. However, since the operation environment of robots such as human care and collaboration has changed recently, safety and performance of this robot are inevitably important. Therefore, in this study, we studied the care robots among the service robots that collaborate with humans collectively. First, we presented the autonomy judgment index of robots as an indicator for human risk management. In addition, we presented a method to determine the accuracy of motion through food assist robots among care robots. In order to prove this experimentally, the impact level limit was set and suggested through the collision test of the human face region.

It is thought that this result can be provided as a valid indicator for developers and robot evaluators by identifying the degree of human injury in the development of care robot in the future. 
 
Index Terms—care robot, risk management, DOA (Degree of Autonomy), food assist robot, motion accuracy, human injury

Cite: Sunwoo Yuk, Jei Cheong Ryu, InHo Hwang, Sungbae Jung, Junghoon Hwang, Woojin Yu, Inhyuk Moon, "A Study on the DOA, Accuracy and Facial Impact of Food Assist Robot for the Elderly and the Disabled," International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research, Vol. 9, No. 9, pp. 1322-1328, September 2020. DOI: 10.18178/ijmerr.9.9.1322-1328

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