抄録
The purpose of this study is to develop a new control method of a walking assistance device. In this study, we assumed that the walking style combining the bilateral step of the lower limbs with the twist of the trunk is useful for assisted walking by the Spinal Engine theory. Neural oscillators, which are the model of inhibitory and excitatory mechanism between neurons in central pattern generator, were used in order to synchronize device with human action, because those have a feature of synchronizing with periodic input signal. The pressure sensor was also used so as to obtain input signal to neural oscillators. The result of the walking experiment to evaluate the proposed control method showed that a support and synchronization behavior was confirmed to some extent. However, both a support and synchronization are not sufficed. In future work, increasing the power of assist and adjusting synchronization level will be positive work to improve a support
