Design of Ankle Rehabilitation Device Using Fan-shaped Pneumatic Soft Actuator

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Recently, according to Japanese aging society, devices to rehabilitate for the temporally injured elderly and disabled have been actively researched and developed. However, the developed rehabilitation devices are only taken into physical characteristics of human, not technique of Physical Therapist (PT). Therefore, we aim to design the device and actuator with technique of PT. In this paper, based on the technique of PT, a position of the developed Fan-shaped Pneumatic Soft Actuator (FPSA) in our previous study is decided by simulation of MATLAB. As a result, it was confirmed that the angle of ankle joint was approximately 91° when the supply pressure of 20 kPa was applied.