Patent ID: 8630734

Claim:
A method to move a person with an automated manipulator, comprising the steps of: with a multi-axis, automated manipulator having a rider receptacle adapted to receive a person, moving the person at the rider receptacle through a movement that produces acceleration experienced by the person at the rider receptacle during the movement; operating said manipulator to execute said movement from a computerized control unit in communication with the automated manipulator; providing said computerized control unit with a predetermined acceleration variable that represents a tolerable amount of said acceleration experienced by the person at the rider receptacle during the movement, said predetermined acceleration variable comprising a plurality of different permissible acceleration durations respectively associated with a plurality of different permissible acceleration values; in said computerized control unit, determining, at a time selected from the group consisting of before executing said movement and during execution of said movement, a determined acceleration variable that represents actual acceleration at said rider receptacle produced by said movement; and from said computerized control unit, dynamically adapting execution of said movement, during said movement, to continually make said determined acceleration variable substantially conform to said predetermined acceleration variable during said movement.