Development of a Wearable Device for Non-weight Bearing With Using Prismatic Joints

Abstract

It is hard works to move heavy loads for health person and elderly people. Carriages and walkers are generally utilized, however it is hard to move them at uneven area and they take much space. Therefore, wearable devices with bipedal locomotion are desired. Because existing devices adopt electric motor and pneumatic actuator, they have problems about battery and air cable. So we have developed simple wearable device with only passive mechanical devices.