Proceedings of the Korean Fiber Society Conference (한국섬유공학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2003.10a
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- Pages.79-80
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- 2003
Development of Assistive Mobility Equipment Modeled on Pedal Crawling Locomotion of Terrestrial Gastropod
- Morikawa, Hirohisa (Department of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University) ;
- Fujihara, Ryousen (Department of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University) ;
- Fukaya, Yuhya (Department of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University) ;
- Kobayashi, Shunichi (Department of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University) ;
- Sakai, Hiroshi (Industrial Research Institute of Nagano)
- Published : 2003.10.01
Abstract
In order to develop an indoor assistive mobility equipment, we paid attention to the mechanism of locomotion in a snail, or a terrestrial gastropod molluscs. It is known that the snail moves by propagation of a pedal wave generating on a pedal surface of the snail and a pedal locomotion has flexibility far ground condition. An air mattress with a function of a pedal-like locomotion mechanism was developed and the performance of the pedal locomotory air mattress as mobility equipment was discussed.
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