Design of a Soft Wearable Device for Hip and Knee Extension Assistance

Park, Hyunjun1; Lan, Jian1; Zhang, Jiwen1; Chen, Ken1; Fu, Chenglong2

10.1109/ICCAR.2019.8813492

2019

2251-2446

978-1-7281-3327-0

5th International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics, ICCAR 2019

798-801

19-22 April 2019

Beijing, China

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Most old adults have mobility impairments because muscle weakness increases with age. Critically, stair ascent is one of the challenging tasks because the moments required at joints of the lower limb are significantly higher. In order to assist human anti-gravity movement, a soft wearable device with a tendon and pulleys system was designed. In this way, the device can support hip and knee extension simultaneously when the actuator is mounted on the upper body. Forces were measured by load cells at the lower limb, and the strategy was verified.
© 2019 IEEE.

exosuit wearable anti-gravity Tendon-driven mechanism

其他

EI

National Natural Science Foundation of China[61533004]

20193807455033

Robotics ; Wearable technology

Biological Materials and Tissue Engineering:461.2 ; Robotics:731.5

EV Compendex

1.Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing; 100084, China
2.Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen; 518055, China

Park, Hyunjun,Lan, Jian,Zhang, Jiwen,et al. Design of a Soft Wearable Device for Hip and Knee Extension Assistance[C]:Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.,2019:798-801.