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Design of a Walking Assistance Lower Limb Exoskeleton for Paraplegic Patients and Hardware Validation Using CoP

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2013
The design of an assistive lower limb exoskeleton robot for paraplegic patients that can measure the centre of pressure is presented. In contrast with most biped walking robots, the centre of pressure (CoP) or zero moment point (ZMP) has not been ...
Jung-Hoon Kim, Jeong Woo Han, Deog Young Kim, Yoon Su Baek   +3 more
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Design Strategies and Emerging Applications of High‐Performance Flexible Piezoresistive Pressure Sensors

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Flexible piezoresistive pressure sensors underpin wearable and soft electronics. This review links sensing physics, including contact resistance modulation, quantum tunneling and percolation, to unified materials/structure design. We highlight composite and graded architectures, interfacial/porous engineering, and microstructured 3D conductive networks
Feng Luo, Artur Ciesielski, Paolo Samorì   +2 more
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Texoskeletons: Developing the Fundamental Technologies for Creating Intelligent Soft Robotic Clothing With Integrated 1D Sensors and Actuators

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Traditional wearable exoskeletons rely on rigid structures, which limit comfort, flexibility, and everyday usability. This work introduces the fundamental technologies to create the first soft, lightweight, intelligent textile‐based exoskeletons (Texoskeletons) built using 1D sensors and actuators.
Amy Lukomiak, Rameesh Bulathsinghala, Jack Varga, Shuxin Meng, Kalana Marasinghe, Imaad Refai, Biyon Fernando, Amitkumar Patel, Chamika M. Halloluwa‐Arachchige, Carlos Oliveira, Arash M. Shahidi, Zahra Rahemtulla, Alexander Turner, Ziyun Ding, Bernard X. W. Liew, Andy Kerr, Ezio Preatoni, Theo Hughes‐Riley, Ishara Dharmasena, Pasindu Lugoda   +19 more
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3D Printing Innovations in Polymeric Porous and Patterned Architecture

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Polymeric foams occupy a unique structural space between dense solids and open networks, where engineered void fraction governs mechanical compliance, thermal resistance, and mass transport. Additive manufacturing now enables precise spatial control over cellular architecture, unlocking designer foam structures across applications spanning crash ...
Dhanush Patil, Sri Vaishnavi Thummalapalli, Clarissa Westover, Arunachalam Ramanathan, M. Taylor Sobzcak, Roumika Patil, Qixuan Xiang, Tiantian Li, Sui Yang, Timothy E. Long, Hongyue Sun, Xianqiao Wang, Yang Liu, Kenan Song   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impacts of a lower limb exoskeleton robot on anxious stroke patients [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2020
To explore the intervention effect of exoskeleton robot training on anxiety of stroke patients. Methods 24 stroke patients with hemiplegia were randomly divided into experimental group and control group, with 12 cases in each group.
Zhang Jiyu, Yao Jiajia, Wang Tian, Zhao Qingyu, Qi Qi   +4 more
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Chemically Doped Conductive Polymers for Wearable Health Monitoring

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Among conductive polymers, poly(3,4‐ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS), polyaniline (PANI), and polypyrrole (PPy) are the most studied and applied. Chemical doping significantly boosts intrinsic conductivity and mechanical robustness.
Mengdi Zuo, Jian Song, Hong Hu, Le Zheng, Lei Zhang, Charles H. Lawrie   +5 more
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Smart Closed‐Loop Systems in Personalized Healthcare: Advances and Outlook

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
A smart closed‐loop e‐textile integrates multimodal sensing, onboard processing, wireless communication, and wearable power to enable real‐time physiological/biochemical monitoring and feedback‐controlled therapy. ABSTRACT Smart textiles represent a revolutionary frontier in healthcare, seamlessly blending fabric and advanced technologies to create ...
Safoora Khosravi, Sang Won Lee, Mohammad Abrar Uddin, Sina Hassanpoor, Neha Suvindran, Katherine Le, Harun Arkaz, Harishkumar Narayana, Saeid Soltanian, Danial Khorsandi, Negar Hosseinzadeh Kouchehbaghi, Taeil Kim, Yangzhi Zhu   +12 more
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A Wearable Lower Limb Exoskeleton: Reducing the Energy Cost of Human Movement

Micromachines, 2022
Human body enhancement is an interesting branch of robotics. It focuses on wearable robots in order to improve the performance of human body, reduce energy consumption and delay fatigue, as well as increase body speed.
Xinyao Tang, Xupeng Wang, Xiaomin Ji, Yawen Zhou, Jie Yang, Yuchen Wei, Wenjie Zhang   +6 more
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Fabric‐Based Wearable Robotic Exoskeleton Gloves: Advancements and Challenges

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review highlights interdisciplinary technological advances in fabric‐based robotic gloves, focusing on progress in design, fabrication, actuation, sensing, control, and power and energy requirements. It also addresses performance testing and validation, including biomechanical, strength, functional, user experience, and durability assessments, to ...
Ayse Feyza Yilmaz, Gökhan Ince, Ozgur Atalay   +2 more
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Multi-connection load compensation and load information calculation for an upper-limb exoskeleton based on a six-axis force/torque sensor

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2019
In this article, a method of multi-connection load compensation and load information calculation for an upper-limb exoskeleton is proposed based on a six-axis force/torque sensor installed between the exoskeleton and the end effector.
Xin Wang, Qiuzhi Song, Shitong Zhou, Jing Tang, Kezhong Chen, Heng Cao   +5 more
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