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doi:10.3850/978-981-08-7723-1_P168
Development of Flexible Sensors for Measuring Human Motion and Displacement of Novel Flexible Pneumatic Actuator
Tetsuya Akagi1,a, Shujiro Dohta1,b, Hiroaki Kuno1,c and Akimasa Fukuhara2
1Department of Intelligent Mechanical Engineering, Okayama University of Science, 1-1 Ridai-cho, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-0005 Japan.
aakagi@ are.ous.ac.jp
bdohta@are.ous.ac.jp
ckuno@ are.ous.ac.jp
2Graduate School of Engineering, Okayama University of Science, 1-1 Ridai-cho, Kita-ku, Okayama, 700-0005 Japan.
t09rm07fa@ std.ous.ac.jp
ABSTRACT
The importance of wearable devices in nursing care and rehabilitation has been strongly recognized. The purpose of our study is to develop a flexible displacement and bending sensor which can measure the movement of the human body and a flexible actuator. In this paper, a skin displacement sensor using a string type flexible displacement sensor to measure the movement of the human body measuring the displacement of the skin was proposed and tested. A flexible linear encoder that can measure the displacement of the flexible pneumatic cylinder using four photo-reflectors was also developed. In addition, the measurement using both sensors was done to measure the human motion and the flexible actuator
Keywords: Skin displacement sensor, Indirect measuring for human motion, Flexible pneumatic cylinder, Flexible linear encoder.
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