Sensors and actuation technologies in exoskeletons: A review

M Tiboni, A Borboni, F Vérité, C Bregoli, C Amici - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Exoskeletons are robots that closely interact with humans and that are increasingly used for
different purposes, such as rehabilitation, assistance in the activities of daily living (ADLs) …

A review of gait phase detection algorithms for lower limb prostheses

HTT Vu, D Dong, HL Cao, T Verstraten, D Lefeber… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Fast and accurate gait phase detection is essential to achieve effective powered lower-limb
prostheses and exoskeletons. As the versatility but also the complexity of these robotic …

Optimal foot location for placing wearable IMU sensors and automatic feature extraction for gait analysis

AR Anwary, H Yu, M Vassallo - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Our aim is to maximize the interpretable information for gait analysis. To achieve this, it is
important to find the optimal sensor placement and the parameters that influence the …

An automatic gait feature extraction method for identifying gait asymmetry using wearable sensors

AR Anwary, H Yu, M Vassallo - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
This paper aims to assess the use of Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors to identify gait
asymmetry by extracting automatic gait features. We design and develop an android app to …

Stance and swing detection based on the angular velocity of lower limb segments during walking

M Grimmer, K Schmidt, JE Duarte, L Neuner… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Lower limb exoskeletons require the correct support magnitude and timing to achieve user
assistance. This study evaluated whether the sign of the angular velocity of lower limb …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in self-powered wearable flexible sensors for human gaits analysis

X Hu, Z Ma, F Zhao, S Guo - Nanomaterials, 2024 - mdpi.com
The rapid progress of flexible electronics has met the growing need for detecting human
movement information in exoskeleton auxiliary equipment. This study provides a review of …

ED-FNN: A new deep learning algorithm to detect percentage of the gait cycle for powered prostheses

HTT Vu, F Gomez, P Cherelle, D Lefeber, A Nowé… - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Throughout the last decade, a whole new generation of powered transtibial prostheses and
exoskeletons has been developed. However, these technologies are limited by a gait phase …

Implementation of a brain-computer interface on a lower-limb exoskeleton

C Wang, X Wu, Z Wang, Y Ma - IEEE access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose to use brain-computer interface (BCI) to control a lower-limb
exoskeleton. The exoskeleton follows the wearer's motion intention through decoding of …

Supervised machine learning scheme for electromyography-based pre-fall detection system

G Rescio, A Leone, P Siciliano - Expert Systems with Applications, 2018 - Elsevier
Falls are the leading cause of disability and death among the elderly. Over the years,
several inertial-based wearable devices for automatic fall and pre-fall detection have been …

Gait phase classification for a lower limb exoskeleton system based on a graph convolutional network model

X Wu, Y Yuan, X Zhang, C Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a graph convolutional network model (GCNM) for gait phase
classification to control a lower limb exoskeleton. The GCNM can recognize four leg phases …