3D2-02 Development of Muscle Suits

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop the wearable robot (Muscle suit) that can be wearing it that cannot freely move his body by handicap, and arises with even an aged person of the problem in the body can freely move his body. Muscle suit has the structure like the armor, and can achieve the movement of a minimum arm in human's life by putting it on like clothes. In this study, we suggest new shoulder mechanism in order to overcome issues of former shoulder mechanism. To control the position of the arm of Muscle suit, the relation among the input to the actuator, the position of the arm, and the load to the arm was studied by using the neural network. Controlling Muscle suit by using this study result according to any posture became possible.