TY - JOUR
T1 - Development of an intelligent chair tool system applying new intelligent pneumatic actuators
AU - Faudzi, Ahmad Athif Mohd
AU - Suzumori, Koichi
AU - Wakimoto, Shuichi
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Area (no. 438) ‘Intelligent Actuators for Multi-Degrees-of-Freedom Mechatronics (16078209)’ from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan. A.A.M.F. would like to acknowledge the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) for the scholarship awarded. A. A. M. F also thanks Kazutoshi Kono and Muneo Toyama from Koganei for providing research facilities and the System Integration Laboratory, Okayama University for access to its facilities in completion of his PhD work.
PY - 2010/6/1
Y1 - 2010/6/1
N2 - This paper develops an Intelligent Chair Tool (ICT) - a new chair-type human and machine interaction seating system powered by 36 intelligent pneumatic actuators. This tool can be used to facilitate investigation of chair shapes from spring and damping effects of seating and backrest surfaces. Each actuator used consists of five extensive elements of encoder, laser strip rod, pressure sensor, valves and PSoC microcontroller incorporated in a single device. By using the ICT, different shapes, spring and damping characteristics can be obtained to aid the design of chairs from the control inputs, i.e., position x, stiffness k s and viscous coefficient c. Several control algorithms are presented to realize the communication and control system, and to obtain all data in real-time. The control methodology presented contains an inner force loop and an outer position loop implemented using a unified control system. The specification, development design and experimental evaluation of the ICT control system and actuator used are presented and discussed.
AB - This paper develops an Intelligent Chair Tool (ICT) - a new chair-type human and machine interaction seating system powered by 36 intelligent pneumatic actuators. This tool can be used to facilitate investigation of chair shapes from spring and damping effects of seating and backrest surfaces. Each actuator used consists of five extensive elements of encoder, laser strip rod, pressure sensor, valves and PSoC microcontroller incorporated in a single device. By using the ICT, different shapes, spring and damping characteristics can be obtained to aid the design of chairs from the control inputs, i.e., position x, stiffness k s and viscous coefficient c. Several control algorithms are presented to realize the communication and control system, and to obtain all data in real-time. The control methodology presented contains an inner force loop and an outer position loop implemented using a unified control system. The specification, development design and experimental evaluation of the ICT control system and actuator used are presented and discussed.
KW - Intelligent Chair Tool
KW - control application in mechatronics
KW - intelligent pneumatic actuator
KW - physical human machine interaction
KW - seating system
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U2 - 10.1163/016918610X505602
DO - 10.1163/016918610X505602
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77954241279
SN - 0169-1864
VL - 24
SP - 1503
EP - 1528
JO - Advanced Robotics
JF - Advanced Robotics
IS - 10
ER -