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1 online resource (xiv, 390 pages) : illustrations
Wearable exoskeletons are electro-mechanical systems designed to assist, augment, or enhance motion and mobility in a variety of human motion applications and scenarios. The applications, ranging from providing power supplementation to assist the wearers to situations where human motion is resisted for exercising applications, cover a wide range of domains such as medical devices for patient rehabilitation training recovering from trauma, movement aids for disabled persons, personal care robots for providing daily living assistance, and reduction of physical burden in industrial and military applications. The development of effective and affordable wearable exoskeletons poses several design, control and modelling challenges to researchers and manufacturers. Novel technologies are therefore being developed in adaptive motion controllers, human-robot interaction control, biological sensors and actuators, materials and structures, et cetera In this book, the authors report recent advances and technology breakthroughs in exoskeleton developments. It will be of interest to engineers and researchers in academia and industry as well as manufacturing companies interested in developing new markets in wearable exoskeleton robotics.
Intro; Contents; Preface; Section 1: Review and overall requirements; 1: Lower-limb wearable robotics (Thomas G. Sugar, David Armstrong, Bijan Najafi, Sangram Redkar and Jeffrey A. Ward); Abstract; 1.1 Background; 1.2 Definition of wearable robotic system; 1.3 Promise and potential of wearable robotic systems; 1.4 Challenges; 1.5 Lower limb wearable systems; 1.6 Lower limb orthoses; 1.7 Lower limb prostheses; 1.8 Lower limb exoskeletons; 1.9 Legged rehabilitation; 1.10 Future vision; References
2: Review of exoskeletons for medical and service applications: ongoing Research in Europe on Wearable Robots, with focus on lower extremity exoskeletons (Jan F. Veneman, Dirk Lefeber and Nicola Vitiello)Abstract; 2.1 Introduction; 2.1.1 What are wearable robots and lower extremity exoskeletons?; 2.1.2 European research funding structure; 2.2 Review of recent wearable robot and exoskeleton-related research projects inside Europe; 2.2.1 General directions; Acknowledgement; References; 3: Soft wearable robots (Conor J. Walsh); Abstract; 3.1 Introduction
3.2 Soft wearable robots to assist locomotion3.3 Soft wearable robots to assist the upper extremity; 3.4 Soft wearable robots for implantable applications; 3.5 Emerging directions in soft wearable robots; References; 4: Exploring user requirements for a lower body soft exoskeleton to assist mobility (Valerie Power, Adam de Eyto, Christoph Bauer, Corien Nikamp, Samuel Schulein, Jeanette Mul̈ler, Jesuś Ortiz and Leonard O'Sullivan); Abstract; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 User-centred design; 4.3 XoSoft: a soft lower body exoskeleton to assist mobility
4.4 Identifying users of a soft exoskeleton to assist mobility4.4.1 Primary users; 4.4.2 Secondary users; 4.4.3 Tertiary users; 4.5 A mixed methods study to explore users' design requirements; 4.5.1 Methods; 4.5.2 Results; 4.6 User needs: implications for soft exoskeleton design; 4.6.1 Functional requirements; 4.6.2 Design and aesthetics; 4.6.3 Willingness to use the concept; 4.6.4 Alternative assistive devices; 4.6.5 Current challenges for soft exoskeleton technologies; 4.7 Chapter summary; References; Section 2: Design and control of exoskeletons; References
5: Design and control of spherical shoulder exoskeletons for assistive applications (Shaoping Bai, Simon Christensen and Muhammad Raza Ul Islam)Abstract; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 State-of-the-art in shoulder exoskeletons; 5.3 Kinematics of spherical shoulder exoskeleton; 5.3.1 Planar kinematics of the DPL; 5.3.2 Kinematics of the shoulder mechanism; 5.4 Shoulder mechanism design; 5.5 Control strategies of exoskeleton shoulders; 5.5.1 State-of-the-art exoskeleton control; 5.5.2 Control algorithms; 5.5.3 Trajectory-based control; 5.5.4 Interaction-based control
edited by Shaoping Bai, Gurvinder S. Virk, and Thomas G. Sugar.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
London, United Kingdom : The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2018
IET control, robotics and sensors series ; 108