長時間上肢前方挙上作業支援用デライトスーツの試作と評価

抄録

Power assistive orthoses and devices are required as means for reducing fatigue. Many assistive devices are “exoskeleton”. External hard structure that they have allow to support our motion powerfully. However, they tends to be hard and heavy. Otherwise, “endoskeleton” can’t support our motion powerfully. However, they are lightweight and flexible. Those characteristics reduce burdens of equipping assistive devices. Thin pneumatic artificial muscle have many advantages, including thin diameter, lightweight and flexible. Those advantages are suitable for endoskeleton. In this paper, we present the design and the prototype of delight suit for lifting of upper limbs. Through subjective experiments, the results show that delight suit support upper limb lifting movement and assist medial deltoid muscle.