Abstract
There has been increased interest in use of pneumatic actuators in many fields, such as medical care and welfare. In particular,proposed pneumatic soft actuator with soft material has many advantages such as low mass,flexibility,safety and user-friendliness. We therefore focus on the pneumatic actuators as a drive source of a rehabilitation device. The purpose of this work is to develop a rehabilitation system to prevent contracture of the finger joints using the pneumatic soft actuators. We prototyped the system and measured the flexure angle and the extension angle in the rehabilitation test. As a result, we confirmed the problem of rehabilitation system with unlimited to the joint range of motion.
