Sit-to-Stand Assistant Device for the Elderly
To assist physical activity of not only patients and elders but also healthy people, we are developing smart clothes based on soft wearable technologies including variable stiffness mechanism, ergonomic analysis, user-friendly design.

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Seung-Won Kim, Jiyeon Song, Seungbeum Suh, Woosub Lee, and Sung-Chul Kang, "Design and experiment of a passive sit-to-stand and walking (STSW) assistance device for the elderly," 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), July 2018.
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Seung-Won Kim, Jiyeon Song, Seungbeum Suh, Woosub Lee, and Sung Chul-Kang, "A passive sit-to-stand & walk assistive device for indoor movements of the elderly," The 13th Korea Robotics Society Annual Conference (KROC), Jan. 2018.
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Jiyeon Song, Seung-Won Kim, Dong-Eun Choi, Gang-Tae Bae, Woosub Lee, Sung-Chul Kang, "Development of a passive standing-up assistance device for the elderly," The 2017 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent System (MFI), Nov. 2017.
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Jiyeon Song, Seung-Won Kim, Dong-Eun Choi, Gang-Tae Bae, Woosub LEe, Sung-Chul Kang, "Development of a weight compensational passive sit-to-stand assist device for the elderly," The 12th Korean Robotics Society Annual Conference, Feb. 2017.