Wearable Upper limb motion assist device based on compliant parallel mechanism

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H03054
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: ARATA Jumpei 九州大学, 工学研究院, 准教授 (40377586)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 橋爪 誠 九州大学, 医学研究院, 教授 (90198664) ; 木口 量夫 九州大学, 工学研究院, 教授 (90269548)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: エグゾスケルトン / 機構 / 日常生活動作 / リハビリテーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, we have successfully developed a new compliant-parallel mechanism that has a two springs parallelly located and showed its feasibility. The advantages of presented system are: 1. The proposed mechanism deforms according to the wearer’s motion along with the body surface thus not prohibit the user’s motion. 2. The intrinsic spring flexibility avoids the excess load to the wearer’s limb. 3. The spring flexibility also plays a key role to avoid the excess force even the joint center is moving -which is often a major issue for a rigid mechanism.

Free Research Field

ロボット工学