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Unplugged Powered Suit with Pneumatic Gel Muscles

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Haptic Interaction (AsiaHaptics 2016)

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Assistive suits are useful in case of injury or muscle fatigue or due to aging. To support such conditions, we develop the unplugged assistive suit using low air pressure actuated pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs). In demonstration we show the ability to actuate low power PAMs with the help of a shoe with air pumping capability. Most PAMs require an external source of energy i.e. an electric air compressor to operate, but in our proposed model we use human motions as a tool to generate air pressure which result in assisting motions of a leg in the swing motion by giving sense of assistive feeling to a human. This is also verified by analyzing the experimental results.

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  1. Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, 1-4-1 Kagamiyama, Higashihiroshima City, Hiroshima, 739-8527, Japan

    Chetan Thakur & Kazunori Ogawa

  2. Institute of Engineering, Hiroshima University, 1-4-1 Kagamiyama, Higashihiroshima City, Hiroshima, 739-8527, Japan

    Toshio Tsuj & Yuichi Kurita

  3. Daiya Industries Co. Ltd., 1-4-1 Kagamiyama, Higashihiroshima City, Hiroshima, 739-8527, Japan

    Kazunori Ogawa

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  1. Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

    Shoichi Hasegawa

  2. Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

    Masashi Konyo

  3. Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea (Republic of)

    Ki-Uk Kyung

  4. The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

    Takuya Nojima

  5. The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

    Hiroyuki Kajimoto

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Thakur, C., Ogawa, K., Tsuj, T., Kurita, Y. (2018). Unplugged Powered Suit with Pneumatic Gel Muscles. In: Hasegawa, S., Konyo, M., Kyung, KU., Nojima, T., Kajimoto, H. (eds) Haptic Interaction. AsiaHaptics 2016. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 432. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4157-0_42

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