ArticleScientific reports2019
Suit-type Wearable Robot Powered by Shape-memory-alloy-based Fabric Muscle.
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- Shape Memory Alloy-Based Reactive Tubular (SMART) Brake for Compact and Energy-Efficient Wearable Robot Design.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2024Article
- Development of a comfort suit-type soft-wearable robot with flexible artificial muscles for walking assistance.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Fabric muscle with a cooling acceleration structure for upper limb assistance soft exosuits.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Design and development of non-magnetic hierarchical actuator powered by shape memory alloy based bipennate muscle.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Lower limb exoskeleton robot and its cooperative control: A review, trends, and challenges for future research.Frontiers in neurorobotics · 2022Review
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- The Role of Soft Robotic Micromachines in the Future of Medical Devices and Personalized Medicine.Micromachines · 2021Review
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Abstract
A suit-type wearable robot (STWR) is a new type of soft wearable robot (SWR) that can be worn easily anywhere and anytime to assist the muscular strength of wearers because it can be worn like normal clothes and is comfortable to wear even with no power supply. This paper proposes an STWR, in which a shape-memory-alloy-based fabric muscle (SFM) is used as the actuator. The STWR, which weighs less than 1 kg, has a simple structure, with the following components: SFMs, wire encoders for measuring the contraction length of the SFMs, and BOA that fix the actuators on the forearms. In this study, a position controller for the SFM using the wire encoder was developed, and a prototype STWR was fabricated using this position controller. Moreover, by putting the STWR on a mannequin, step-response experiments were performed in which the arms of the mannequin lifted barbells weighing 2 kg and 4 kg to a certain target position. A fast response of moving to the target position in less than 1 s was observed in all steps except for the initial heating step for the 2 kg barbell. The response speed of the SFM was noticeably slower for the 4 kg barbell compared to that for the 2 kg barbell; it moved to the target position in approximately 3 s in all the steps except for the initial heating step. The SFM-applied STWR could overcome the limitations of conventional robots in terms of weight and inconvenience, thereby demonstrating the application potential of STWRs.
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