Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : May 10, 2017 - May 13, 2017
This paper provides a supernumerary robot arm which is attached to the person's waist. This robot arm what we call the third arm. The robot arm is composed of four parts which are an upper-arm, fore-arm, hand and an attachment. The size of the arm is same as the person of it. The robot arm has six degrees of freedom of motion and each joints moves by the servo motor. We conducted several experiments in order to clarify the effectiveness of our robot arm.