Assistive robot hand with bilateral human-interface

A robotic aid system for the disabled who needs suports at meal is proposed. A feature of this system is that the robotic aid system can communicate the operator using the speech recognition and speech synthesis functions. Another is that the robotic aid system has a function of image processing. Using the image processing the system can recognize the environmental situations of the dishes, cups and so on. Due to this image processing function, the operator needs not to specify the position and the posture of the dishes and target objects. Furthermore, the bilateral communication using speech and image processing enables a friendly man-machine interface, since dpeech and visual information is essential in the human communication.

welfare technology

speech recognition

robot hand

image processing

human interface