2A1-B18 Development of standing motion assist device using pneumatic rubber muscle and knee brace

Abstract

In this study, we try to develop devices to support elderly person's standing up motion, which is one of necessary and frequent movements in our daily life. Developed assist device is driven with pneumatic rubber artificial muscle.It makes easy to attach in daily life to improve the user friendliness. In this paper, we developed brace type assist device. We measure basic charactaristics of the device, and after that measure force and EMG when the human standing-up motion. From the result, we can verify and view the effectiveness of thiss device.