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In recent years, the population of elderly people is increasing rapidly. Rehabilitation training systems using robotics and virtual reality technologies, therefore, attracts attention. This paper introduces the development of an upper limb rehabilitation robot with guidance control. This study investigates how the motor learning effect improves with low stiffness guidance control based on pneumatic...
Adaptability of quadruped animals is not solely reached by brain control, but by the interaction between its body, environment, and control. Especially, morphology of the body is supposed to contribute largely to the adaptability. We have tried to understand quadrupedal locomotion by building a bio-inspired quadruped robot named “Pneupard”, which has a feline-like muscular-skeletal structure. In our...
As a rehabilitation support system is a digital device, it has an ability to automatically record and store data. In this study, we utilized this feature to develop an operation interface. Operation interfaces can be compared on the basis of the recorded data. In the case of the stick-type operation interface, the operator can freely control the device by recognizing the direction and magnitude of...
Moving from antagonistic pneumatic Air Muscle actuation to motor-based actuation requires a distinctly different design of motor component. This design is presented in the context of recent developments on the Shadow Dextrous Hand. Antagonistic systems provide certain advantages, but the constant load on the system produces wear and as it is well known, pneumatics offers its own control and mobility...
Pneumatic artificial muscles also known as ldquoPAMrdquo and ldquoPMrdquo, are famous as very light actuators in the current literature. The reason stated in the literature for such claim is their lower ldquopower to weightrdquo ratio compared to other type of actuators namely pneumatic cylinders and electrical motors. However using the ldquopower to weightrdquo ratio of actuators for claiming the...
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