Opportunities and challenges in the development of exoskeletons for locomotor assistance

C Siviy, LM Baker, BT Quinlivan… - Nature Biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
Exoskeletons can augment the performance of unimpaired users and restore movement in
individuals with gait impairments. Knowledge of how users interact with wearable devices …

Personalizing exoskeleton assistance while walking in the real world

P Slade, MJ Kochenderfer, SL Delp, SH Collins - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Personalized exoskeleton assistance provides users with the largest improvements in
walking speed and energy economy,–but requires lengthy tests under unnatural laboratory …

User preference optimization for control of ankle exoskeletons using sample efficient active learning

UH Lee, VS Shetty, PW Franks, J Tan… - Science Robotics, 2023 - science.org
One challenge to achieving widespread success of augmentative exoskeletons is accurately
adjusting the controller to provide cooperative assistance with their wearer. Often, the …

A fuzzy convolutional attention-based GRU network for human activity recognition

G Khodabandelou, H Moon, Y Amirat… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
Human activity recognition has become a pillar of today intelligent Human–Computer
Interfaces as it typically provides more comfortable and ubiquitous interaction. This paper …

Estimating human joint moments unifies exoskeleton control, reducing user effort

DD Molinaro, I Kang, AJ Young - Science Robotics, 2024 - science.org
Robotic lower-limb exoskeletons can augment human mobility, but current systems require
extensive, context-specific considerations, limiting their real-world viability. Here, we present …

Task-agnostic exoskeleton control via biological joint moment estimation

DD Molinaro, KL Scherpereel, EB Schonhaut… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Lower-limb exoskeletons have the potential to transform the way we move,,,,,,,,,,,,–, but
current state-of-the-art controllers cannot accommodate the rich set of possible human …

Effects of a soft robotic exosuit on the quality and speed of overground walking depends on walking ability after stroke

LH Sloot, LM Baker, J Bae, F Porciuncula… - … of neuroengineering and …, 2023 - Springer
Background Soft robotic exosuits can provide partial dorsiflexor and plantarflexor support in
parallel with paretic muscles to improve poststroke walking capacity. Previous results …

Real-time gait phase and task estimation for controlling a powered ankle exoskeleton on extremely uneven terrain

RL Medrano, GC Thomas, CG Keais… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Positive biomechanical outcomes have been reported with lower limb exoskeletons in
laboratory settings, but these devices have difficulty delivering appropriate assistance in …

AI-driven universal lower-limb exoskeleton system for community ambulation

D Lee, S Lee, AJ Young - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Exoskeletons offer promising solutions for improving human mobility, but a key challenge is
ensuring the controller adapts to changing walking conditions. We present an artificial …

Experiment-free exoskeleton assistance via learning in simulation

S Luo, M Jiang, S Zhang, J Zhu, S Yu… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Exoskeletons have enormous potential to improve human locomotive performance,–.
However, their development and broad dissemination are limited by the requirement for …