Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : May 10, 2017 - May 13, 2017
In recently years, aging society with fewer children are major problem, and it is required that the elderly are independent in order to enhance the quality of life. There are many researches on walking assist suit from this background. Walking is exercise including not only lower body but also upper body movement, but most of these are suits to assist the lower body. Therefore, the purpose of study is to develop walking assist suit focusing on trunk rotation. The control method adopted periodic input control which is effective for periodic motion. And, the Hybrid oscillator is extended,it is possible to change the motion in case of rotating direction switching. In this paper, we describe the design method of the trunk rotation assist device, confirm system effect from experiment. As the result, this system need to consider left and right legs.
