Operation of Third Hand Robot by Surplus Muscle Strength

Abstract

Human can perform various tasks by their two hands. If we can use additional hands, breadth of the tasks that we can perform will be larger. Currently, artificial limbs technology for people with disabilities has been developed in a practical level. However, development of additional robotic body is not progressing. In this paper, we propose to use the surplus muscle strength as an operating method of an additional robotic body. We expect that the operating method can get many input channels by using muscles of whole body , and does not depend on the motion of the body. In addition, this paper describes the disk rotation task using the third arm robot, which is operated with the surplus muscle strength.