Extension of human sensory/motor functions

To enjoy our daily lives even as we age, it is essential to maintain the sensation of moving our bodies as we wish and feeling various things for ourselves. Tools and information technology have the potential to overcome the barriers and limitations of our physical abilities and bring us unknown experiences. To realize this, we are developing human-enhancement assistive devices that extend and improve human movement and sensation functions and capabilities.

Expansion to work support, physical ability extension, and wearable force feedback using artificial muscles

research

Swagata Das and Yuichi Kurita, ForceArm: A wearable pneumatic gel muscle (PGM) based assistive suit for the upper limb, IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, Vol.2, Issue 2, pp. 269-281, May 2020.
Masataka Yamamoto, Yusuke Kishishita, Koji Shimatani, and Yuichi Kurita, Development of New Soft Wearable Balance Exercise Device Using Pneumatic Gel Muscles, Applied Sciences, Vol.9, No.15, Article #3108, August 2019.
Kazunori Ogawa, Akito Kadowaki, Koji Shimatani, Masaya Hasegawa, Keita Takahashi, Toshio Tsuji, and Yuichi Kurita, Supporting effects on muscles of a motion assistive wear depending on the fixture position, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 729-739, October 2018
Chetan Thakur, Kazunori Ogawa, Toshio Tsuji, and Yuichi Kurita, Soft Wearable Augmented Walking Suit with Pneumatic Gel Muscles and Stance Phase Detection System to Assist Gait, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol.3, Issue 4, pp.4257-4264, October 2018
Swagata Das, Cassie Lowell, Yusuke Kishishita, Kazunori Ogawa, Toshio Tsuji, and Yuichi Kurita, ForceHand glove: a wearable force-feedback glove with pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 3, Issue 3, pp.2416-2423, July 2018

Unplugged Powered Suit

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Kazunori Ogawa, Chetan Thakur, Tomohiro Ikeda, Toshio Tsuji, and Yuichi Kurita, Development of a Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Driven by Low Pressure and Its Application to the Unplugged Powered Suit, Advanced Robotics, Vol.31, Issue 21, pp.1135-1143, November 2017

Expanding Sports with Artificial Muscle Suit

research

Wataru Sakoda, Toshio Tsuji, and Yuichi Kurita, VR training system of step timing for baseball batter using force stimulus, AsiaHaptics2018, Songdo, Korea, November 14-16, 2018
Kazunori Ogawa, Tomohiro Ikeda, and Yuichi Kurita, Unplugged Powered Suit for Superhuman Tennis, 12th France – Japan Congress, 10th Europe – Asia Congress on Mecatronics, pp.355-358, Mie, Japan, September 10-12, 2018
Yusuke Kishishita, Antonio Vega Ramirez, Swagata Das, Chetan Thakur, Yohei Yanase, and Yuichi Kurita, Muscleblazer : A wearable laser tag module powered by PAM-induced force-feedback, First International Symposium on Amplifying Capabilities, Competing in Mixed Realities (Superhuman Sports Design Challenge), Delft, Netherlands, July 2-5, 2018
Wataru Sakoda, Antonio Vega, Kazunori Ogawa, Toshio Tsuji, and Yuichi Kurita, Reinforced suit using low pressure driven artificial muscles for baseball bat swing, Augmented Human 2018, Article No.30, Seoul, Korea, February 7-9, 2018

Suits that improve a person’s sensory and motor functions：SEnS

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Yuichi Kurita, Jumpei Sato, Takayuki Tanaka, Minoru Shinohara, and Tosho Tsuji, Unloading muscle activation enhances force perception, Augmented Human 2014, March 7-9, 2014. DOI:10.1145/2582051.2582055

Wearable device to enhance fingertip perception sensitivity based on stochastic resonance phenomenon

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Yuichi Kurita, Minoru Shinohara, and Jun Ueda, Wearable Sensorimotor Enhancer for Fingertip using Stochastic Resonance Effect, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, Vol. 43, Issue 3, pp. 333-337, May 2013

References

Swagata Das and Yuichi Kurita, ForceArm: A wearable pneumatic gel muscle (PGM) based assistive suit for the upper limb, IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, Vol.2, Issue 2, pp. 269-281, May 2020.
Masataka Yamamoto, Yusuke Kishishita, Koji Shimatani, and Yuichi Kurita, Development of New Soft Wearable Balance Exercise Device Using Pneumatic Gel Muscles, Applied Sciences, Vol.9, No.15, Article #3108, August 2019.
Kazunori Ogawa, Akito Kadowaki, Koji Shimatani, Masaya Hasegawa, Keita Takahashi, Toshio Tsuji, and Yuichi Kurita, Supporting effects on muscles of a motion assistive wear depending on the fixture position, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 729-739, October 2018
Chetan Thakur, Kazunori Ogawa, Toshio Tsuji, and Yuichi Kurita, Soft Wearable Augmented Walking Suit with Pneumatic Gel Muscles and Stance Phase Detection System to Assist Gait, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol.3, Issue 4, pp.4257-4264, October 2018
Swagata Das, Cassie Lowell, Yusuke Kishishita, Kazunori Ogawa, Toshio Tsuji, and Yuichi Kurita, ForceHand glove: a wearable force-feedback glove with pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 3, Issue 3, pp.2416-2423, July 2018
Kazunori Ogawa, Chetan Thakur, Tomohiro Ikeda, Toshio Tsuji, and Yuichi Kurita, Development of a Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Driven by Low Pressure and Its Application to the Unplugged Powered Suit, Advanced Robotics, Vol.31, Issue 21, pp.1135-1143, November 2017
Wataru Sakoda, Toshio Tsuji, and Yuichi Kurita, VR training system of step timing for baseball batter using force stimulus, AsiaHaptics2018, Songdo, Korea, November 14-16, 2018
Kazunori Ogawa, Tomohiro Ikeda, and Yuichi Kurita, Unplugged Powered Suit for Superhuman Tennis, 12th France – Japan Congress, 10th Europe – Asia Congress on Mecatronics, pp.355-358, Mie, Japan, September 10-12, 2018
Yusuke Kishishita, Antonio Vega Ramirez, Swagata Das, Chetan Thakur, Yohei Yanase, and Yuichi Kurita, Muscleblazer : A wearable laser tag module powered by PAM-induced force-feedback, First International Symposium on Amplifying Capabilities, Competing in Mixed Realities (Superhuman Sports Design Challenge), Delft, Netherlands, July 2-5, 2018
Yuichi Kurita, Jumpei Sato, Takayuki Tanaka, Minoru Shinohara, and Tosho Tsuji, Unloading muscle activation enhances force perception, Augmented Human 2014, March 7-9, 2014. DOI:10.1145/2582051.2582055
Wataru Sakoda, Antonio Vega, Kazunori Ogawa, Toshio Tsuji and Yuichi Kurita, Reinforced suit using low pressure driven artificial muscles for baseball bat swing, Augmented Human 2018, Article No.30, Seoul, Korea, Februrary 7-9, 2018
Yuichi Kurita, Minoru Shinohara, and Jun Ueda, Wearable Sensorimotor Enhancer for Fingertip using Stochastic Resonance Effect, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, Vol. 43, Issue 3, pp. 333-337, May 2013

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