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Minimalistic Soft Exosuit for Assisting the Shoulder via Biomechanics-Aware Optimization

, 2023
Soft exosuits can help to prevent work-related musculoskeletal disorders by offloading human muscles through the application of external forces across the human joints.
Joshi, Sagar, Della Santina, Cosimo, Seth, Ajay, Beck, Irene   +3 more
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Biomechanical and Physiological Evaluation of Multi-Joint Assistance With Soft Exosuits

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2017
To understand the effects of soft exosuits on human loaded walking, we developed a reconfigurable multi-joint actuation platform that can provide synchronized forces to the ankle and hip joints. Two different assistive strategies were evaluated on eight subjects walking on a treadmill at a speed of 1.25 m/s with a 23.8 kg backpack: 1) hip extension ...
Ye, Ding, Ignacio, Galiana, Alan T, Asbeck, Stefano Marco Maria, De Rossi, Jaehyun, Bae, Thiago Ribeiro Teles, Santos, Vanessa Lara, de Araujo, Sangjun, Lee, Kenneth G, Holt, Conor, Walsh   +9 more
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Assistance magnitude versus metabolic cost reductions for a tethered multiarticular soft exosuit

, 2023
When defining requirements for any wearable robot for walking assistance it is paramount to maximize the user’s net metabolic benefit, while limiting the metabolic penalty of carrying the system’s mass.
Galiana Bujanda, Ignacio, Wagner, D., Siviy, Christopher, Walsh, Conor, Malcolm, Philippe, Quinlivan, Brendan, Karavas, Nikolaos, Asbeck, A., Lee, S., Rossi, D. M., Grimmer, M.   +10 more
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Design and Evaluation of a Bilateral Semi-Rigid Exoskeleton to Assist Hip Motion

Biomimetics
This study focused on designing and evaluating a bilateral semi-rigid hip exoskeleton. The exoskeleton assisted the hip joint, capitalizing on its proximity to the body’s center of mass.
Arash Mohammadzadeh Gonabadi, Prokopios Antonellis, Alex C. Dzewaltowski, Sara A. Myers, Iraklis I. Pipinos, Philippe Malcolm   +5 more
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Performance estimation of the lower limb exoskeleton for plantarflexion using surface electromyography (sEMG) signals

Journal of Biomechanical Science and Engineering, 2017
In this paper, we evaluate the performance of the rigid and soft exoskeleton by measuring electromyography (sEMG) signal of human lower limb muscles. sEMG represents the degree of muscle activation and the higher sEMG level can be measured if the greater
Junghoon PARK, Hyunkyu PARK, Jung KIM
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Reducing the energy cost of walking with low assistance levels through optimized hip flexion assistance from a soft exosuit. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2022
Kim J, Quinlivan BT, Deprey LA, Arumukhom Revi D, Eckert-Erdheim A, Murphy P, Orzel D, Walsh CJ.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Design, characterization, and validation of a soft pneumatic exosuit for ankle-dorsiflexion assistance

, 2023
Of the 795,000 people that suffer a stroke in the United States every year, 65% experience hemiparesis. Foot drop is a common gait pathology in people with lower-limb paresis and is often caused by neuropathy of the peroneal nerve that innervates the ...
Mori Carroll, Sean Kazuki
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Developing a lower-limb soft exosuit for human rehabilitation and space application

This thesis presents a novel design for a lower limb soft exosuit that employs pennate-style actuators and shape memory polymers to enhance resistive exercise regimens with particular consideration for astronaut-specific needs .
Khan, Shamas
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Osteo assist. Soft exosuit for osteoarthritis patients

, 2019
LAUREA MAGISTRALEIl presente lavoro si concentra sullo sviluppo di un’esoscheletro morbido gonfiabile per assistere gli affetti di osteoartrite. L'obiettivo originale era sviluppare un esoscheletro a scopo di riabilitazione, ma durante il percorso per ...
GOPAL KSHEERASAGAR, GOUTHAM
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Effectiveness of Using Soft Exosuit in Stroke Case to Improve Walking Speed And Endurance

Stroke is a clinically defined syndrome of acute, focal nerve discharge caused by vascular injury (infarction, hemorrhage) of the central nervous system.
Widyadhana, Rakha Shidqi, Pratama, Aditya Denny   +1 more
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