Fujie Masakatsu
Dept. of Modern Mechanical Engineering, Waseda University, Japan.
Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. 2012 Jul;39(7):1044-8.
The words "Japan syndrome" can now be heard increasingly through the media. Facing the approach of an elderly-dominated society, Robot Technology(RT)is expected to play an important role in Japan's medical, rehabilitation, and daily support fields. The industrial robot, which has already spread through the world with a great success in certain isolated environments by doing the work which is specialized for the thing with the hard known characteristic. By comparison, in the medical and rehabilitation fields, environments always change intricately, and individual characteristics differ from person to person. Furthermore, there are many times when a robot will be asked to directly interact with people. Moreover, the relation between a robot and a person turns into a relation which should involve contact flexibly according to a situation, and also turns into a relation which should avoid contact. In our group, we have so far developed practical rehabilitation and medical robots which can respond to difficulties such as environmental change and individual specificity. In developing rehabilitation robots, it is especially important to consider intuitive operability and individual differences. In addition, in developing medical robots, it is important to replace the experimental knowledge of surgeons to the mechanical quantitative properties. In this article, we introduce some practical examples of rehabilitation and medical robots interweaving several detailed technologies we have so far developed.
如今，“日本综合征”一词在媒体上越来越常见。面对老龄化社会的来临，机器人技术有望在日本的医疗、康复及日常护理领域发挥重要作用。工业机器人凭借在特定孤立环境中成功完成针对具有明确特性的事物的专门工作，已在全球广泛应用。相比之下，在医疗和康复领域，环境总是错综复杂地变化，个体特征因人而异。此外，机器人常常需要与人直接互动。而且，机器人与人之间的关系会根据具体情况灵活转变为需要接触或避免接触的关系。在我们团队中，到目前为止，我们已经开发出了能够应对环境变化和个体差异等难题的实用康复和医疗机器人。在开发康复机器人时，尤其要考虑直观的可操作性和个体差异。此外，在开发医疗机器人时，将外科医生的经验知识转化为机械的定量特性非常重要。在本文中，我们将介绍一些康复和医疗机器人的实际案例，这些案例融合了我们目前已开发的多项详细技术。
