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Recently, many developed countries have begun to experience the problems associated with an aging society. One problem in particular is the growing number of older adults in the labor who suffer from various physical restrictions. Aiming to develop technology to assist these individuals, the novel power assisted system is proposed in this paper. This system estimates the force applied to the object from both the ground reaction force and the human behavior based on the human body dynamics model with 13 links. Then, estimated force is used for the power assistance to help the conveyance of the heavy object. The validity of the model is verified through both simulation and experiment with three tasks by four subjects, and it is shown that our proposed system can be used as a power assisted system.
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