Abstract
The number of falling down accidents in elderly people has been increasing along with the progress of aging society. The main factor of fall down accidents is a gap of the center of balance due to decline in physical performance. The elderly people need to recover the declined physical performance to prevent the falling down accidents. However, most elderly people also have bowlegged walking and they tend to lean their posture outside. That is also factor of falling down. So we began to produce walking training system that can treat a gap of the center of balance of a subject. We produced High-Performance Shoes that show status of walking balance. Further, we also produced walking assist system of human sole distribution from an insole. With respect to the system, the stiffness of the insole corresponded to human sole distribution can be changed. So we can correct subject's walking status. Further, we detected pressure distribution during walking by using High-Performance Shoes. Moreover, we compared normal distribution pattern and corrective one. As a result, we clarified that assist system reforms subjects posture inside. Thus, it's cleared that the assist system can prevent their falling down motion.
