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 …

The exoskeleton expansion: improving walking and running economy

GS Sawicki, ON Beck, I Kang, AJ Young - Journal of neuroengineering and …, 2020 - Springer
Since the early 2000s, researchers have been trying to develop lower-limb exoskeletons
that augment human mobility by reducing the metabolic cost of walking and running versus …

State of the art and future directions for lower limb robotic exoskeletons

AJ Young, DP Ferris - IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Research on robotic exoskeletons has rapidly expanded over the previous decade.
Advances in robotic hardware and energy supplies have enabled viable prototypes for …

From sensing to control of lower limb exoskeleton: A systematic review

Y Sun, Y Tang, J Zheng, D Dong, X Chen… - Annual Reviews in Control, 2022 - Elsevier
As a typical application of the human-computer interaction device, the lower limb
exoskeleton has attracted many researchers' attention in recent years in an attempt to …

Performance evaluation of lower limb exoskeletons: a systematic review

D Pinto-Fernandez, D Torricelli… - … on Neural Systems …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Benchmarks have long been used to verify and compare the readiness level of different
technologies in many application domains. In the field of wearable robots, the lack of a …

A hip–knee–ankle exoskeleton emulator for studying gait assistance

GM Bryan, PW Franks, SC Klein… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Lower-limb exoskeletons could improve the mobility of people with disabilities, older adults,
workers, first responders, and military personnel. Despite recent advances, few products are …

Systematic review of back-support exoskeletons and soft robotic suits

A Ali, V Fontanari, W Schmoelz… - … in bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Lower back pain and musculoskeletal injuries are serious concerns for workers subjected to
physical workload and manual material handling tasks. Spine assistive exoskeletons are …

Mobility related physical and functional losses due to aging and disease-a motivation for lower limb exoskeletons

M Grimmer, R Riener, CJ Walsh, A Seyfarth - Journal of neuroengineering …, 2019 - Springer
Background Physical and functional losses due to aging and diseases decrease human
mobility, independence, and quality of life. This study is aimed at summarizing and …

Real-time gait phase estimation for robotic hip exoskeleton control during multimodal locomotion

I Kang, DD Molinaro, S Duggal, Y Chen… - IEEE robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We developed and validated a gait phase estimator for real-time control of a robotic hip
exoskeleton during multimodal locomotion. Gait phase describes the fraction of time passed …

Design and experimental verification of hip exoskeleton with balance capacities for walking assistance

T Zhang, M Tran, H Huang - IEEE/ASME Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most current hip exoskeletons emphasize assistance for walking rather than stability. The
goal of this paper is to develop a novel, high-power, self-balancing, and passively and …