| Budget Amount *help |
¥34,840,000 (Direct Cost: ¥26,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥8,040,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥10,270,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,370,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥5,850,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,350,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥7,280,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,680,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥11,440,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,640,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
To realize robots with flexible and "living-like" characteristics, it is essential to realize an "artificial muscle" that has sufficient contracting capacity and can be accumulated to drive highly redundant mechanisms.
In this research, we realized 1) “next-generation McKibben artificial muscle” characterized by “electric drive” and “multi-fiber structure”, and applied it to 2) “musculoskeletal robot mechanisms” to demonstrate its potential. Specifically, (1) we focused on the McKibben muscle and realized the artificial muscle with shape and characteristics similar to human muscles by the new driving method with chemical reaction of water and the diameter reduction. And (2) the muscles were applied to musculoskeletal robots and power suits to show that the realization of motion/force characteristics similar to humans and the realization of power support that fits the body.
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