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병사를 위한 허리 보조 외골격 로봇: 군 적용 가능성 분석

Back Support Exoskeleton Robot for Soldiers: Military Applicability Analysis

Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering 2018;35(10):925-931.
Published online: October 1, 2018

1 국방과학연구소 제 5기술연구본부

1 The 5th R&D Institute, Agency for Defense Development

#E-mail: harry.yoon8+sc@gmail.com, TEL: +82-42-821-4303
• Received: July 6, 2018   • Revised: August 31, 2018   • Accepted: September 7, 2018

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Fig. 1 Survey results of the operation of the infantry units (a crew-served weapon manual handling and fire support) (a) maximum operating load (19 people) (b) maximum operating loading item (19 people) (c) mission duration for maximum load operation (19 people) (d) the most difficult type of motion (19 people) (e) the body parts under load (17 people) (f) the body parts that feel the most fatigue (17 people)
Fig. 2 Survey results of ammo loading/unloading, obstacle transport/installation, bridge construction mission (a crew-served weapon manual handling and fire support) (a) maximum operating load (37 people) (b) maximum operating loading item (37 people) (c) mission duration for maximum load operation (37 people) (d) the most difficult type of motion (37 people) (e) the body parts under load (35 people) (f) the body parts that feel the most fatigue (34 people)
Back Support Exoskeleton Robot for Soldiers: Military Applicability Analysis

List of retrieved back support exoskeleton robots

No Name References (Company) Power type Supported body IP code Other
1 PLAD
(Personal augmentive lifting device)
Whitfield,6 Eramaki,7
Frost,8 Godwin,9 Lotz,10
Sadler,11 Graham12
Passive
(Elastic straps)
Back - Discomfort shoulder
(10%), knee (40%)
2 PAS
Power assist suit
Araie13 Passive
(Spring and ratchet)
Full body - 8 kg, agricultural
3 Wearable moment
restoring device
Wehner14 Passive
(Spring)
Back -
3 BNDR Ulrey15 Passive
(Springs)
Hip joint - Chest pain
4 Happyback Barret16 Passive
(Bungee cords)
Back - Crop harvest
5 Bendezy Barret16 Passive
(Springs)
Full body - .
6 SSL
Smart Suit Lite
Imamura17 Passive
(Elastic belts)
Back - Nursing care
7 SPEXOR Rijcke18 Passive
(Cam)
Full body - Nursing
8 LAEVO V2.5 Bosch19 Passive
(Cam)
Hip joint - 2.8 kg, chest pad
9 Back X Suit X20 Passive Hip joint - 3.4 kg
10 Strengthen Upper Limb
Exoskeleton
Deng21 Active
(Hydraulic actuator)
Upper -
11 Power Assist Wear Li22 Active
(Pneumatic actuator)
Back and Hip
joint
-
12 Quasi-Active Exoskeleton Kim23 (Quasi)-Active
(Electric Motor, Knee)
Full body -
13 PARM
Power-Assist Robot Arm
Kadota24 Active
(Pneumatic actuator)
Back and arms -
14 Muscle Suit Kobayashi, Nakamura25 Active
(McKibben)
Back and arms - 6.5 kg
15 Exoskeleton power assist
system
Naruse26 Active
(Electric Motor, Cables)
Full body - 11 kg
16 Human-robot integrated
exoskeleton
Ryu (Hyundai-Rotem)27 Active
(Electric motor)
Full body -
17 WSAD Luo28 Active
(Motor + band)
Back -
18 HAL
Hybrid assistive limb
Kawabata (Cyberdyne)29 Active Full body -
19 HAL_LB03 Cyberdyne30 Active Hip Joint IPX4 3 kg, 3 hr
20 A Lower-Back Robotic
Exoskeleton
Zhang31 Active
(Electric motors)
Full body -
21 Back-Support Exoskeleton Toxiri32 Active
(PEA + bungee cord)
Hip joint -
22 Wearable Power Assist
Wear
Hirotani33 Active
(Pneumatic artificial muscle)
Back Waterproof
Actuator
23 MODEL Y ATOUN34 Active Hip joint IP55 4.4 kg, 4 hr
24 H-WEX Hyundai Motors35 Active Hip Joint -
25 INNOPHY
Standard
INNOPHY36 Active
(McKibben)
Back - 6.6 kg
Table 1 List of retrieved back support exoskeleton robots