平地歩行感覚再現に着目した無限歩行装置に関する研究

―紐牽引によるトレッドミル床加速時の慣性力の打ち消し―

抄録

A treadmill has a potential to enable humans to have a walking experience in remote place without a spatial limitation for telepresence. In this study, we present a treadmill system with a string traction, which enables a human to walk in the similar way to a level ground gait during the transition phase to a steady state from an acceleration state. As a result of an experiment with six users, the proposed treadmill system enabled the users to walk in an acceleration state with the same head acceleration pattern as with level ground walking while canceling the inertial effect by the string traction, which means that the users was able to experience walking in the transition to a steady state from an acceleration state on the treadmill.