Reinforced Suit Using Low Pressure Driven Artificial Muscles For Baseball Bat Swing

This paper proposes an assistive device to augment the sports activity. This experiment presents a bat swing augmentation suit for baseball that can provide automatically the assistive timing required to improve the performance of the user, this action is determined by the system. To generate the operation at the appropriate timing, an acceleration sensor, electric valves, and a microcomputer are attached on the suit. We conduct the experiment to confirm the performance of the suit by measuring the swinging speed. The experimental results showed that the device can improve the swinging speed of experienced subjects about 3 km/h.