Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : May 10, 2017 - May 13, 2017
A power exoskeleton (PE) is a wearable device to assist human muscles. We have been developing a PE capable of carrying a heavy load on operator’s back. However, the PE has to make operator’s motion awkward and consume battery power by the unbalanced load. In this study, in order to solve these problems, we propose a new PE mechanism with quadruped walking legs. In this paper, we introduce a fundamental concept of the mechanism and design a prototype. Then, we construct a prototype and perform experiments to show the effectiveness of the proposed mechanism.
