Construction of Intelligent Massage System Based on Human Skin-Muscle Elasticity
Tatsuya Teramae, Daisuke Kushida, Fumiaki Takemori, Akira Kitamura · IEEJ Transactions on Electronics Information and Systems · 2009
A present massage chair realizes the massage motion and force designed by a professional masseur. However, appropriate massage force to the user cannot be provided by the massage chair in such a method. On the other hand, the professional masseur can realize an appropriate massage force to more than one patient, because, the masseur considers the physical condition of the patient. This paper proposes the method of applying masseur's procedure to the massage chair. Then, the proposed method is composed by estimation of the physical condition of user, decision of massage force based on the physical condition and realization of massage force by the force control. The realizability of the proposed method is verified by the experimental work using the massage chair.