Development of Muscle Suit for Upper Body

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 3624-3629

  Kobayashi, Hiroshi ^a,b   Uchimura, Akitaka ^a   Shiiba, Taichi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abduction; Cheap and light apparatus without metal frame; McKibben artificial muscle; Medical and welfare apparatus; Muscle suit; Muscular support apparatus; Wearable robot

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES; MUSCLE SUITS; WEARABLE ROBOTS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACTUATORS; COMPRESSED AIR; MOTION CONTROL; MUSCLE; ROBOTICS;

BIOMECHANICS;

EID: 0348040189     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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