PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for measuring and evaluating a muscle sensation.SOLUTION: A control appliance for controlling operations of a reaction force generator to which a user interface which is moved by a user is provided, is connected to a muscle sensation function observation appliance. The muscle sensation function observation appliance determines the operation of the reaction force generator, according to a selection instruction by an observer or a user, and measures sensation feature of a user to a steering reaction force load, by an indirect method, then evaluates functions of resistance sense and position sense included in the muscle sensation by quantitative numeric values, then visualizes an analysis result by graph display according to constant reference.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1COPYRIGHT: (C)2017,JPO&INPIT【課題】筋感覚を測定評価できる技術を提供する。【解決手段】筋感覚機能観測器に、使用者が動かすユーザインタフェースの付いた反力発生装置の動作制御をするための制御機器を接続する。筋感覚機能観測器は観測者または使用者による選択命令に応じて反力発生装置の動作を決定し、特徴的に変化する操縦反力負荷に対する使用者の知覚特性を間接法に基づいて測定し、筋感覚に含まれる抵抗覚と位置覚の機能を定量的な数値で評価して、解析結果を一定基準によるグラフ表示で可視化を行う。【選択図】図1
