Development of Wearable Driving Units Driven for Long Time

由于日本社会的老龄化，需要可穿戴的驾驶系统，如康复设备。本研究的目的是开发小型可穿戴控制设备。我们的目标是开发长时间驱动的可穿戴驾驶单元。因此，提出并测试了用于即使气缸弯曲也可以使用的新型柔性气缸的位移传感器和弯曲传感器。提出了一种内置直线编码器和打捆传感器的柔性气缸，并进行了试验。作为可穿戴执行器的控制装置，提出并测试了一种可以使用小型电池长时间驱动的具有自保持功能的流体控制阀。此外，这些测试的可穿戴控制设备的性能得到了改善。

Due to the aging Japanese society, the wearable driving system such as rehabilitation device is required. The purpose of this study is to develop small-sized wearable control devices. We aim to develop wearable driving units driven for long time. As a result, a displacement sensor and a bending sensor for a novel flexible pneumatic cylinder that could be used even if the cylinder bends was proposed and tested. The flexible pneumatic cylinder with built-in linear encoder and banding sensor was also proposed and tested. As a control device for wearable actuator, fluid control valve with self-holding function that can be driven for a long time by using a small-sized battery was proposed and tested. In addition, the performance of these tested wearable control devices was improved.