Daisuke Chugo, Professor, Faculty of Engineering, was awarded the Highly Commended Paper of Industrial Robots and Support Technologies (CLAWAR2023) at the awards ceremony of the 26th issue of the International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and Technologies (CLAWAR2023), held on 3 October 2023 in Florianópolis, Brazil. This award is separate from CLAWAR itself, and the journal Industrial Robot, published by Emerald, independently selects the best papers from approximately 100 papers submitted to the CLAWAR journal, with three selected this year.
Professor Chugo's winning paper is entitled Assistive walker which stabilizes the user's posture and prevent falls through abnormal gait pattern recognition. When a patient with hemiplegia or other paraplegia walks with an unbalanced left-right gait, the walking assistance robot stabilises the walking posture and prevents the patient from falling by making good use of the assistance force of both the left and right wheels of the walking assistance robot. At the award ceremony, Clive Loughlin, Editor-in-Chief of Industrial Robot, commented on the high level of practicality of the robot, as it ensures safety at low cost through technical ingenuity.
The authors of the paper are.
Daisuke Chugo (Professor, School of Engineering, Kwansei Gakuin University), Yao Li (Graduated in 2022 from School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University), Satoshi Muramatsu (Associate Professor, School of Information Science and Technology, Tokai University), Sho Yokota (Professor, Facility of Science and Enginenring, Toyo University) and Jinhua She (School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Technology), Hiroshi Hashimoto (Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Institute of Technology).