Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : May 10, 2017 - May 13, 2017
It is important to reveal human falling mechanism to prevent falling accident. Many studies have been done to understand the human motion when his/her legs are perturbed during walking. In this paper, to reveal human falling mechanism, the human reaction motion when the constant force is applied to his/her swing leg in forward/backward direction is investigated using a lower-limb power-assist robot. As a result, the magnitude of the force for falling and the feature of trajectory change were found out.
