Singe switch and auto scan panel are important input method for patients with upper limb disability. We have developed the single switch interface to control the service robot arm to support their daily life. We made an improvement of the interface to exchange the menu panel location on the auto scan panel automatically according to the user's operation history.

To support disabled persons with less muscle strength like muscular dystrophy patients, a single switch and a scanning menu panel is introduced to input method for the manipulator control. The iArm manipulator and its simulator are connected to evaluate the input performance. The evaluation task is the handling of pegs on the pegboard with the manipulator. Two muscle dystrophy patients tested our interface to control both of the simulator and the real manipulator.

We are developing a manipulator system in order to support disabled people with less muscle strength such as muscular dystrophy patients. Such a manipulator should have an easy interface for the users to control it. We are developing a user interface part of the system. A single switch is introduced as the input device for the manual control of the robot arm in our interface. The scanning menu panel is designed to perform various actions of the robot arm with the single switch. In this paper, we report the development of RT-Component of iArm which is a commercial manipulator to support disabled persons' daily life to evaluate our interface's efficiency. The demonstration that the user interface and the iArm components are connected and controlled is shown.

To support disabled persons with less muscle strength like muscular dystrophy patients, a single switch and a scanning menu panel is introduced to input method for the manipulator control. The iArm manipulator and its simulator are connected to evaluate the input performance. The evaluation task is the handling of pegs on the pegboard with the manipulator. Muscle dystrophy patients tested our interface to control both of the simulator and the real manipulator with a pegboard. The view of the robot control by the subject is shown on the video.

To support disabled people with less muscle strength like muscular dystrophy patients, we are developing simple robot arm systems. In this paper, we report the improvements of the inter-face part of the system. The user can change the buttons' position on the input panel only with the single switch. The user can let the buttons on the input panel scan with single click and can select a button with double click.