2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Homeostatic enhancement technologies to increase affinity of wearable assistive gear
| Project/Area Number |
21686025
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Intelligent mechanics/Mechanical systems
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2012
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| Keywords | 人間機械システム / 支援機器 |
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| Research Abstract |
This project developed wearable technologies to improve affinity of the assistive gear and device so that a user could continue to use the device for a long time. For example, an active air mattress installed in a forearm part of the support system actively holds a human forearm quickly and firmly, and then changes the contacting areas with a human skin in order to maintain adequate blood circulation around the contacting area. Exhaust air from air chambers is reused to ventilate around a forearm skin. Thesecond technology developed in this project is a new structure of the exoskeleton that evenly distributes the assistive force into a user and an environment so that a user could control total grasping force including the assistive force with the same precision as one human has.
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