Hands-Free Seated Personal Mobility Device UNI-ONE | Honda Technology | Honda

A mobility tool the person can steer just by transferring physique weight while sitting and conserving each and each fingers free to plod naturally in all directions as within the event that they had been walking, can boost the functionality of mobility beyond walking and use of a historical wheelchair.

The perform of Honda Robotics is to relieve folks in their every single day lives, and one of many well-known ideas of Honda Robotics is the “expansion of the bodily features for folks.” In accordance with this conception, we’re creating the UNI-ONE, a fingers-free non-public mobility tool that gives fresh value to our customers by enabling them to net pleasure from mobility with out being constrained by their bodily capabilities and/or expertise.

What is UNI-ONE?

A fingers-free non-public mobility tool that expands the functionality and pleasure of alternative folks

There are two key sides of UNI-ONE.
First, is that UNI-ONE adjustments its high.
UNI-ONE takes the “low situation” for more steadiness while the person is getting on, and shifts to the “high situation” as soon as transferring, so as that the person will have an peep stage shut to that of oldsters which would perchance maybe be standing. The different key characteristic is that a UNI-ONE person can plod in all directions staunch by transferring their physique weight, thus utilizing each and each fingers freely.

Having an peep stage shut to that of standing folks permits pure communications while transferring. Being ready to utilize of each and each fingers makes it attainable to originate obvious initiatives while transferring, beyond running the tool. These key sides of UNI-ONE assign bigger the functionality of alternative folks.

Applied sciences that made UNI-ONE attainable:

Human-machine cooperative steadiness regulate technology and the distinctive wheel mechanism

Honda presented the UNI-CUB in 2012 and the UNI-CUB β in 2013 as a non-public mobility tool folks can use in their on a typical basis lives.
The UNI-ONE sides “human-machine cooperative steadiness regulate technology” and the distinctive wheel mechanism (force blueprint), that were inherited from the UNI-CUB β and additional superior.

Human-machine cooperative steadiness regulate technologyThe blueprint makes use of posture sensors to detect the person’s pure postural movements, staunch fancy what happens when an particular person walks. By utilizing files equivalent to inclination angle and angular trek, the intension estimation controller performs calculations to estimate the person’s intentions, equivalent to whether the person wishes to carry in situation, or to plod toward which direction and at what trek. In accordance with the outcomes of the estimate, the stabilization controller performs calculations to manage the wheels so as that the UNI-ONE does no longer lean too a ways and applies ideas regulate to perform pure habits that’s neither too swiftly nor too slow.

Furthermore, by making use of ideas regulate at a calculation trek more than twice as swiftly as that of the UNI-CUB β developed in 2013, the UNI-ONE permits the person to plod as intended by making puny adjustments in their posture. As a end result, UNI-ONE become a mobility tool which would perchance plod around with out misfortune while reaching a high level of operational steadiness, which makes it easy to walk for every kind of oldsters including elderly and younger folks. Trend is additionally underway to accommodate folks with a disability within the lower limbs who’ve skill to retain their steadiness while sitting*.

“Honda Omni Traction Force Plan,” Honda’s celebrated wheel mechanismHonda Omni Traction Force Plan (HOT Force Plan), Honda’s celebrated wheel mechanism that permits highly responsive circulation in all directions, has been additional superior as a mobility mechanism that realizes the feeling of human walking. The UNI-ONE is geared up with 2 items of the HOT Force Plan, one on both facet, enabling the person to assign refined circulation in any direction.

This tool and hardware (human-machine cooperative steadiness regulate technology and HOT Force Plan) makes it easy for the UNI-ONE person to alter directions by pushing off a wall or desk with their hand, which is complicated to perform for the customers of a historical kind of seated mobility tool, equivalent to wheelchairs. As well to, they additionally allow aesthetic line tracing when transferring at medium to high speeds.

*Research and improvement below the supervision of Yokohama Metropolis Customary Rehabilitation Center.

Spend circumstances of UNI-ONE:

Growing the enjoyment of oldsters by offering fresh mobility alternatives in varied eventualities

As an illustration, when a 3-generation family visits a theme park, UNI-ONE might perchance well additionally just decrease the burden on elderly relations who’re no longer assured in walking for a protracted interval of time, enabling them to have a perfect time while becoming a member of the remainder of the family all the draw in which by the day. For parents with an impaired lower limb, utilizing UNI-ONE will assign it more uncomplicated for them to perform their work or originate initiatives utilizing each and each fingers freely while transferring. For individuals who need a wheelchair for mobility, UNI-ONE will allow them to plod around as within the event that they are walking and talking to folks around them, in would love to having a caregiver push them in a wheelchair.　Furthermore, UNI-ONE can decrease the burden of oldsters that have to stroll around in a perfect inform for their work.

We want to add fresh mobility alternatives for folks in varied eventualities. In doing so, we want to permit folks to have more relaxing and pleasure in their every single day lives. That is the colossal idea of our UNI-ONE.

The fervour of the enchancment group:

Growing UNI-ONE while pondering of the smile on the faces of oldsters utilizing it. Our perform is to permit folks to have more relaxing and net pleasure from their lives.