Design and Evaluation of Rise Assisting Bed “Resyone<sup>®</sup>” based on ISO 13482

摘要

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has issued ISO 13482, which is a new global safety standard for personal care robots and is the key to these safety for human. However, it is a conceptual standard, which does not have concrete standard values. Moreover, when protective measures for risk reduction are implemented using the control system, it has to be developed based on functional safety standard, which is difficult to interpret. Therefore it is very difficult to understand concretely how to design and evaluate personal care robots in order to meet this standard. At such times, we acquired the certification of ISO 13482 in the robotic care equipment which is integration of an electric care bed and an electric reclining wheelchair. This paper reports a concrete example of how to develop and evaluate robotic care equipments based on ISO 13482.