受動型アクチュエータを用いた移乗介護用パワーアシストスーツの開発

抄録

Today in Japan, as the population ages and the number of people using nursing homes increases, back pain and other symptoms caused by the increased burden on caregivers have become a problem. Therefore, several devices have been developed to reduce the burden of transfer care, which is particularly burdensome, but they are not practical and have not been adopted in nursing homes. Therefore, in this study, we developed a power assist suit with only passive actuators to reduce the burden of transfer care. We conducted lifting experiments using a developed power assist suit and confirmed the assisting effect from ElectroMyoGraphy (EMG) values with and without the power assist suit.