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Evaluation of U.S. Army Soldiers wearing a back exosuit during a field training exercise [PDF]

Wearable Technologies, 2023
Back overuse injuries are a significant problem in the U.S. Army, responsible for nearly a quarter of musculoskeletal injuries. Back exosuits are wearable devices that relieve musculoskeletal strain, make lifting easier, and could potentially reduce ...
P. R. Slaughter, K. M. Rodzak, S. J. Fine, C. C. Ice, D. N. Wolf, K. E. Zelik   +5 more
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Development of an upper limb passive exosuit for the 2023 ASTM Exo Games [PDF]

Frontiers in Robotics and AI
This paper presents the design of the passive upper limb exosuit that won the design competition in the 2023 ASTM Exo Games. The tasks were first analyzed to provide information about the requirements of the design.
Stijn Kindt, Stijn Kindt, Stijn Kindt, Elias Thiery, Elias Thiery, Elias Thiery, Stijn Hamelryckx, Stijn Hamelryckx, Stijn Hamelryckx, Adrien Deraes, Tom Verstraten, Tom Verstraten, Tom Verstraten   +12 more
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Soft back exosuit controlled by neuro-mechanical modeling provides adaptive assistance while lifting unknown loads and reduces lumbosacral compression forces. [PDF]

Wearable Technol
State-of-the-art controllers for active back exosuits rely on body kinematics and state machines. These controllers do not continuously target the lumbosacral compression forces or adapt to unknown external loads.
Moya-Esteban A, Refai MI, Sridar S, van der Kooij H, Sartori M.   +4 more
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Usability of an exosuit in domestic and community environments [PDF]

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2022
BACKGROUND Exosuits have been shown to reduce metabolic cost of walking and to increase gait performance when used in clinical environment. Currently, these devices are transitioning to private use to facilitate independent training at home and in the
Basla, Chiara, Hungerbühler, Irina, Meyer, Jan Thomas, Riener, Robert, Wolf, Peter, Xiloyannis, Michele   +5 more
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Volume Transfer: A New Design Concept for Fabric‐Based Pneumatic Exosuits

Advanced Intelligent Systems
The fabric‐based pneumatic exosuit is now a hot research topic because it is lighter and softer than traditional exoskeletons. Existing research focuses more on the mechanical properties of the exosuit (e.g., torque and speed), but less on its ...
Chendong Liu, Dapeng Yang, Jiachen Chen, Yiming Dai, Li Jiang, Hong Liu   +5 more
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A Novel Personalized Strategy for Hip Joint Flexion Assistance Based on Human Physiological State [PDF]

Biosensors
Soft exosuits have emerged as potent assistive tools for walking support and rehabilitation training. However, most existing soft exosuit systems rely on preset assistance modes, which may not accurately align with individual physiological states and ...
Beixian Wu, Chunjie Chen, Sheng Wang, Hui Chen, Zhuo Wang, Yao Liu, Tingwei He, Jiale Zhang, Xinyu Wu   +8 more
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Changes in Kinematic and Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters With a Biarticular Lower Limb Exosuit for Adolescents With Crouch Gait During Level Walking and Stair Climbing [PDF]

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
Crouch gait is a prevalent walking abnormality among children with cerebral palsy, characterized by excessive knee and hip flexion during walking. This condition often limits children’s engagement in physical activities and daily life.
Chiara Basla, Philippe Durrenberger, Peter Wolf, Robert Riener, Hubertus J. A. van Hedel   +4 more
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Lightweight active back exosuit reduces muscular effort during an hour-long order picking task [PDF]

Communications Engineering
Occupational back exoskeletons and exosuits aim to reduce low back injuries in the workplace. For these technologies to be adopted, it is important that they provide biomechanical benefits to the wearer and do not disrupt job performance. To address this
Jinwon Chung, D. Adam Quirk, Megan Applegate, Michael Rouleau, Nathalie Degenhardt, Ignacio Galiana, Diane Dalton, Louis N. Awad, Conor J. Walsh   +8 more
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Comparison of Empirical and Reinforcement Learning (RL)-Based Control Based on Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) for Walking Assistance: Does AI Always Win? [PDF]

Biomimetics
The use of wearable assistive devices is growing in both industrial and medical fields. Combining human expertise and artificial intelligence (AI), e.g., in human-in-the-loop-optimization, is gaining popularity for adapting assistance to individuals ...
Nadine Drewing, Arjang Ahmadi, Xiaofeng Xiong, Maziar Ahmad Sharbafi   +3 more
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A Resistive Soft Robotic Exosuit for Dynamic Body Loading in Hypogravity. [PDF]

Adv Sci (Weinh)
The resistive hypogravity exosuit is a lightweight wearable robotic exosuit that uses pneumatic artificial muscles to restore Earth‐like metabolic and muscular demands during locomotion in low gravity. Tested on healthy subjects in Earth and simulated Moon gravity, the suit restores energy expenditure and muscle activation without altering gait ...
Pulvirenti E, Diteesawat RS, Pavei G, Natalucci V, Hauser H, Minetti A, Rossiter J.   +6 more
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