Abstract

Recently, many power-assist robots have been developed to support and amplify human muscle strength. These robots are expected to use in various fields such as medical welfare, rescue, agriculture, physical labor in the factory and so on. In these activities, one hand is always in active to accomplish the task. Therefore, the hand assist device is useful. There are several researches to assist the hand. Pneumatic actuators are used because of high power weight ratio and light in weight. However, the degree of freedom (Dof) is yet to be enough. In this paper, a grip amplified glove using bi-articular driving mechanism is proposed and developed. Pneumatic artificial rubber muscles (PARM) are used as the actuator. The glove has totally 10 Dofs. The glove has the feature that the electrical sensors are away from the wearable part. Therefore, the glove is environmentally-resistant. The effectiveness of the glove is demonstrated experimentally.

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