足関節の遠隔触診・治療を目指したアバターフット

―第１報：基本コンセプトと収縮型Wound Tube Actuatorの提案―

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This paper presents a concept of Avatar Foot aimed at remote palpation and treatment of the ankle joint, which is a device intended to reproduce the motion characteristics of a patient's ankle joint. As the first step to realize this device, we propose a set of pneumatic flexible actuators suitable for reproducing the muscle characteristics, and verify the validity of the proposed method by experiments.