Abstract
Earthquake occurred on March 11, 2011. Many victims were forced to live in shelters. Thus, there are problems such as sleep disorders of the victims because the living in a shelter is poor. In addition, when bedridden elderly people are evacuated, there are sleeping environmental problems because they can't use high performance electric bed in the case. Therefore, in this study, we propose a air mat system that is able to be used in a shelter. This system uses a cloth actuator as a pneumatic mat. In other words, the mat element has cloth actuator. Therefore, the stiffness of each actuator can be controlled by inner pressure. The inner pressure was controlled some valves or decompression system. In this paper, we make basic experiments with using cloth actuator. Through some experiments, we clarify the utility of the system.
