WEARABLE MOTION ASSISTING DEVICE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION DEVICE AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION METHOD

• Main Author: NABESHIMA, Cota
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 31.10.2018
• Subjects: BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; CHAMBERS PROVIDED WITH MANIPULATION DEVICES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS; FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; FIRST-AID KITS; FOMENTATION; HAND TOOLS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MANIPULATORS; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; PROSTHESES; TRANSPORTING; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS

The present invention was devised in consideration of the above-described circumstances and provides a performance evaluation apparatus and performance evaluation method capable of efficiently evaluating the performance of a wearable motion assistance device, which assists motions of a wearer's lower back part, by using a comparatively simple configuration. In a state where the wearable motion assistance device is secured and mounted on both femur links and a trunk link, torque acting on an axis line of a pitch direction relative to the trunk link for each hip joint is detected while controlling driving forces by first and second driving sources so that a posture of the trunk link and rotation angles of each hip joint and each knee joint virtually match motions of the lower back part of the wearer; and performance of an assist force by the wearable motion assistance device is evaluated on the basis of a detection result of the torque according to drive control of the first and second driving sources.