F111001 Human Support System Using Pneumatic Actuator

Abstract

Due to the rapid growth of aging society, it demands for mechanical system to support human motion in several area, such as heavy labor in industries, nursing care in medical field, and so on. Pneumatic actuator has feature of flexibility owing to the air compressibility, which works as safe function absolutely required for human support mechanical systems. In this study, we introduce some mechanical system using pneumatic actuators to support human motion and the effectiveness through some experiments.