Evaluation and Development of Assistive Cart for Matching to User Walking
- 20 December 2007
- journal article
- Published by Fuji Technology Press Ltd. in Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics
- Vol. 19 (6), 637-645
- https://doi.org/10.20965/jrm.2007.p0637
Abstract
As society ages, devices to assist human movement are attracting increasing attention. We evaluated a cart we developed to assist walking, calculating energy consumption based on a muscle-skeleton model. The cart decreased energy consumption by 6% in a normal gait. We expect our evaluation to be useful for developing a practical walker.Keywords
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