Homeostatic enhancement technologies to increase affinity of wearable assistive gear

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This project developed wearable technologies to improve affinity of the assistive gear and device so that a user could continue to use the device for a long time. For example, an active air mattress installed in a forearm part of the support system actively holds a human forearm quickly and firmly, and then changes the contacting areas with a human skin in order to maintain adequate blood circulation around the contacting area. Exhaust air from air chambers is reused to ventilate around a forearm skin. Thesecond technology developed in this project is a new structure of the exoskeleton that evenly distributes the assistive force into a user and an environment so that a user could control total grasping force including the assistive force with the same precision as one human has.