Abstract
It is important to develop the orthosis which improves the Quality of Life (QOL) and maintains health conditions. As one of the treatment methods done to lumbago, the waist fixation method with the spinal brace or the orthosis is performed. A waist active orthosis implemented with pneumatic flexible actuators is developed and pressure control method of pneumatic flexible actuators is established. Orthosis control valve (on/off valve) system is modeled and the reliability of exhaust and supply model has been validated through experiment. The Effectiveness of the proposed control method has been validated through the control experiment using the orthosis control valve.
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The authors would like to acknowledge financial support for this work provided by QOL (Quality of Life) Innovative Research (2012–2016) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.
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Fujimoto, S., Akagi, T., Zhao, F. (2016). Development of Active Orthosis for Lumbago Relief. In: Juang, J. (eds) Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Engineering Systems (ICITES2014). Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 345. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17314-6_24
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