水圧式パワーアシストスーツの研究

―シリンジと蛇腹を利用したアクチュエータの特性解析―

抄録

Recently, low birthrate and longevity are progressing in Japan, the balance of the elderly and the young are largely collapsed. In addition, the care staff tends aging, when doing the nursing which is hard labor, it's worried to be interfered. Therefore intended to make up for the physical handicap of the elderly person by exercise support, the power assist suit is studied and developed. In this research, using water as a working fluid, propose a power assist suit that consist of a combination of syringe and bellows. In this paper, we measured the basic date on the mechanical properties related to bellows, and obtained design guidelines for power assist suit.