Abstract
Although development of a method of safety test is important to spread wearable robot, it is not established. However, it is difficult to use human subject to evaluate the wearable robot because of the ethical reason. Therefore, a lower limb dummy was developed in this study to evaluate the safety of a wearable robot by measuring the burden of a wearer. The force applied to the wearer will affect the skin of the wearer. Therefore, it is important to expect the burden of the skin. However, there are many parameters which change the force. Now, the effect of the attitude of the wearer is considered in this study. The result suggests that the relative position between robot and human and the attitude of human hip affect the force. Further experiment is necessary for the safety test to cover individuality of motion and physical frame.
