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Augmenting Human with Compact Supernumerary Robotic Limbs

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Tsukasa FukusatoAuthors Info & Claims

AH2022: 13th Augmented Human International Conference

Article No.: 8, Pages 1 - 4

https://doi.org/10.1145/3532525.3532531

Published: 26 May 2022 Publication History

Abstract

This work proposes a compact supernumerary robotic limb that can augment our body physical functions and support the daily activities with an extra wearable robot arm. The proposed device adopts a double-layer scissor unit for the extendable mechanism, which can achieve the distance 2.5 times longer than the forearm length. The proposed device can be mounted on the user’s upper arm and transform into a compact state without any obstruction to wearers. The proposed device is lightweight which results in low amounts of exertion on the wearer. We developed the prototype of the proposed device to demonstrate the proposed mechanisms. We believe that our design methodology can facilitate human augmentation research for practical use.

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AH2022: 13th Augmented Human International Conference

May 2022

56 pages

ISBN:9781450396592

DOI:10.1145/3532525

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University of Manitoba, Canada
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New York University, USA
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University of Geneva, Switzerland

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Yoshida SSasaki TKashino ZInami MWard JMcGill MMarky K(2023)TOMURA: A Mountable Hand-shaped Interface for Versatile InteractionsProceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference 202310.1145/3582700.3582719(243-254)Online publication date: 12-Mar-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3582700.3582719
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