Development of power assist system for manual worker by muscle suit

Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 332-337

  Kobayashi, Hiroshi ^a,b   Suzuki, H ^b   Nozaki, H ^b   Tsuji, Toshiaki ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUPLINGS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

ELDERLY PEOPLE; HEALTHY PEOPLE; INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIONS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MCKIBBEN ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES; MUSCLE SUIT; POWER-ASSIST SYSTEMS; PRACTICAL USE; SHOULDER JOINTS; UPPER LIMB (UL); WEARABLE ROBOTS;

MUSCLE;

EID: 48749095446     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2007.4415104     Document Type: Conference Paper

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