Matsumoto Yoshio, Nishida Yoshifumi, Motomura Yoichi, Okawa Yayoi
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba Central 2, 1-1-1 Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan.
IEEE Int Conf Rehabil Robot. 2011;2011:5975437. doi: 10.1109/ICORR.2011.5975437.
In the robotics community, a great number of assistive robots for elderly and handicapped people have been developed in the past few decades. However, very few of them became commercially available. It is often claimed that the major problems for the commercialization of robotic technologies are the "cost" and the "safety." However we believe that the mismatch of "needs in daily lives" and "seeds in the technologies" is also a major problem. In this paper, we describe our novel ideas on the development of assistive robots which fit the real needs of users based on ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health), which is a part of the WHO Family of International Classifications for describing whole activities of a person in daily lives. By utilizing ICF, the development process of assistive robots - analyzing and discovering needs in daily lives, designing robots and evaluating the products - will be achieved in an objective manner.
在机器人技术领域，过去几十年里已经开发出了大量面向老年人和残疾人的辅助机器人。然而，其中只有极少数实现了商业化。人们常说，机器人技术商业化的主要问题是“成本”和“安全”。但我们认为，“日常生活需求”与“技术成果”之间的不匹配也是一个主要问题。在本文中，我们阐述了基于国际功能、残疾和健康分类（ICF）开发符合用户实际需求的辅助机器人的新颖理念，ICF是世界卫生组织国际分类家族的一部分，用于描述一个人在日常生活中的全部活动。通过利用ICF，辅助机器人的开发过程——分析和发现日常生活需求、设计机器人以及评估产品——将以客观的方式实现。
