Results 161 to 170 of about 5,239,019 (208)

An Anthropometrically Parameterized Assistive Lower Limb Exoskeleton

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 2021
Abstract This paper presents an innovative design methodology for development of lower limb exoskeletons with the fabrication and experimental evaluation of prototype hardware. The proposed design approach is specifically conceived to be suitable for the pediatric population and uses additive manufacturing and a model parameterized in ...
Curt A, Laubscher, Ryan J, Farris, Antonie J, van den Bogert, Jerzy T, Sawicki   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Running With an Elastic Lower Limb Exoskeleton

Journal of Applied Biomechanics, 2016
Although there have been many lower limb robotic exoskeletons that have been tested for human walking, few devices have been tested for assisting running. It is possible that a pseudo-passive elastic exoskeleton could benefit human running without the addition of electrical motors due to the spring-like behavior of the human leg.
Michael S, Cherry, Sridhar, Kota, Aaron, Young, Daniel P, Ferris   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

A lower limb exoskeleton with hybrid actuation

5th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 2014
In this paper, the lower limb exoskeleton uses a harmonic drive actuator and two pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs). This hybrid actuation takes both advantages of harmonic drive and PAM. It provide high accuracy position control and compliant behavior. The disadvantages of each type of actuator are overcome.
Hipólito Aguilar-Sierra, Ricardo López 0001, Wen Yu 0001, Sergio Salazar 0001, Rogelio Lozano   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Collision Reduction Walking for Lower Limb Exoskeletons

International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 2022
Lower limb exoskeletons have received considerable interest in strength augmentation, rehabilitation, and walking assistance scenarios. For walking assistance, repetitive and excessive foot-ground impact makes the patient uncomfortable and even leads to secondary damage. In this paper, variable stiffness ankles are used for collision reduction walking,
Long Zhang, Chaobin Zou, Guangkui Song, Hong Cheng 0002, Rui Huang 0008, Jing Qiu 0004   +5 more
openaire   +1 more source

Design of Lower Limb Exoskeleton

2020
This exoskeleton puts forth a unique design of robotic wearable devices that is ready to provide suitable gait rehabilitation to the elder ones or people after sustaining injury or disability. This system helps physical therapists to guide their patients with gait training programs being even far away from them using the prototype.
Abhishek A. Nimje, Atharva P. Patil, Dipti Y. Sakhare   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Exoskeletons for Lower Limb Applications: A Review

2020
Exoskeletons are assistive devices that play a significant role in the lives of people who have partially or completely lost the functions of their limbs. These robotic devices can be used in rehabilitation, assistance locomotion or augmentation, and significant developments were observed in the last few years in this field.
Mohammed S. Alqahtani, Glen Cooper, Carl Diver, Paulo Jorge Bártolo   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Empowering lower limbs exoskeletons: state-of-the-art

Robotica, 2018
SUMMARYGiven the advanced breakthroughs in the field of supportive robotic technologies, interest in the integration of the human body and a robot into a single system has rapidly increased. The aim of this work is to provide an overview of empowering lower limbs exoskeletons.
Slavka Viteckova, Patrik Kutilek, Gérard de Boisboissel, Radim Krupicka, Alena Galajdová, Jan Kauler, Lenka Lhotská, Zoltán Szabó 0006   +7 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Concept and design of a modular lower limb exoskeleton

2016 6th IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), 2016
Powered lower limb exoskeletons become more and more common and are used for different applications such as rehabilitation and human strength augmentation. However, many of the existing designs are limited to a very specific task. We present the concept and design of a modular, reconfigurable lower limb exoskeleton that can be adapted with respect to ...
Volker Bartenbach, Marcel Gort, Robert Riener   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

A lower-limb exoskeleton for gait assistance in quadriplegia

2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2012
The potential of lower-limb exoskeletons and powered orthoses in gait assistance applications for patients with locomotive disorders would have a terrific impact in the society of the near future. This paper presents the development and main features of a lower limb exoskeleton being developed as an active orthosis to allow a quadriplegic child to walk.
Daniel Sanz-Merodio, Manuel Cestari, Juan Carlos Arevalo, Elena Garcia   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Biomechanical considerations in the design of lower limb exoskeletons

2011 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, 2011
This paper presents an analysis of the human biomechanical considerations related to the development of lower limb exoskeletons. Factors such as kinematic alignment and compatibility, joint range of motion, maximum torque, and joint bandwidth are discussed in the framework of a review of the design specifications for exoskeleton prototypes discussed in
Massimo, Cenciarini, Aaron M, Dollar
openaire   +2 more sources