Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 05, 2019 - June 08, 2019
The goal of this study is to develop a robotic walker that can support walking rehabilitation instead of Physical Therapist (PT). Walking training is being conducted on patients with spinal and lower limb diseases with the assistance of PT. However, a number of PT is not enough comparing to the number of patients, and thus, training time becomes short. This cause reduce training effectiveness. In this paper, we propose the walking training device with assistive manipulator for constant rehabilitation. Working assist experiments by a PT was conducted to measure the walking assist force. From the experiment, parameters required to design the assistive manipulator were determined.
