Development of a biomimetic soft wearable robot

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26560313
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: Ando Takeshi 早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 講師 (40535283)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KOBAYASHI Yo 早稲田大学, 理工学術院総合研究所, 研究院准教授 (50424817)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 知能機械 / ロボティクス / ソフトアクチュエータ / ウエアラブルロボット / 確率共鳴 / リハビリテーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, we have been developing a soft and biomimetc wearable robot. In developed robot system, the SMA actuators are arranged parallel such as human muscle fibers. We evaluated the proposed robot in gait movement. We confirmed that the height of subjects' knee became higher when the subjects wearing the developed robot walked. This result shows our robot has possibility to prevent from the falling down.

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