Development of a Prosthetic Terminal Device using Pneumatic Artificial Muscle

Abstract

Artificial Arm is an assistive product which is used by people who lost an arm because of illness or accident. It compensates for the appearance and supports various daily performance as part of the user’s body. Recent developments of Artificial Arm are significant. Today, the latest thing in Artificial Arm which applies the human biological information such as Myoelectric Hand has appeared. However, the cost, weight and so on are a heavy burden on users. And deterioration of maintenance by becoming complicated structure is a problem, too. So new Artificial Arm which can satisfy various needs was developed using Pneumatic Artificial Muscles and 3D Printer.