Project/Area Number |
24650357
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Research Field |
Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering
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Research Institution | Waseda University |
Principal Investigator |
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MIYASHITA Tomoyuki 早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 教授 (20329080)
KOBAYASHI Yo 早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 准教授 (50424817)
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Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2013)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
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Keywords | ウェアラブルロボット / 生体工学 / バイオミメティクス |
Research Abstract |
Recently, in the super-aged society in Japan, exoskeletons are developed in many ways to support works and activities of elderly people. However, in present, exoskeletons are used in particular situation even though in rehabilitation field because process to put on exoskeletons takes long time, uncomfortableness to wear, and high cost. In this research, we tried to develop a clothes-type robot to ease the process to put on it and to comfort wearing. The clothes-type robot includes shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator to support lifting up the host's lower limb. We set a movement to climb stairs by paralyzed patients as a target, and tried to develop hardware and software.
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