Review on patient-cooperative control strategies for upper-limb rehabilitation exoskeletons

S Dalla Gasperina, L Roveda, A Pedrocchi… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Technology-supported rehabilitation therapy for neurological patients has gained increasing
interest since the last decades. The literature agrees that the goal of robots should be to …

Human-in-the-loop control of soft exosuits using impedance learning on different terrains

Z Li, X Li, Q Li, H Su, Z Kan, W He - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many previous works of soft wearable exoskeletons (exosuit) target at improving the human
locomotion assistance, without considering the impedance adaption to interact with the …

A human-like inverse kinematics algorithm of an upper limb rehabilitation exoskeleton

S Pei, J Wang, J Guo, H Yin, Y Yao - Symmetry, 2023 - mdpi.com
Powered exoskeleton rehabilitation is an effective way to help stroke patients recover their
motor abilities. Bionic structures and human-like control strategies can be used to enhance …

A composite position control of flexible lower limb exoskeleton based on second-order sliding mode

Z Sun, J Qiu, J Zhu, S Li - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
Aiming at the problem that the trajectory tracking error of flexible lower limb exoskeleton
robot is too large under the condition of external disturbance and parameters uncertainty, a …

Flexible control strategy for upper-limb rehabilitation exoskeleton based on virtual spring damper hypothesis

D Kong, W Wang, Y Shi, L Kong - Actuators, 2022 - mdpi.com
The focus of this work is to design a control strategy with the dynamic characteristics of
spring damping to realize the virtual flexibility and softness of a rigid-joint exoskeleton …

Rotation Angle Control Strategy for the Hip Joint of an Exoskeleton Robot Assisted by Paraplegic Patients Considering Time-Varying Inertia

M Yin, D Shang, W Cao, Y Ma, J Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The design and development of new exoskeleton robots can help patients with lower limb
paralysis realize autonomous walking. During the motion of an exoskeleton robot carrying …

1 – ℬℒ Adaptive Controller Design for Wrist Rehabilitation Robot

H Ahmadian, HA Talebi, I Sharifi - 2021 9th RSI International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Upgrading control algorithms to maximize the benefit of robot rehabilitation and increase the
patient's active participation in treatment is very important. The ℒ 1 adaptive controller is …

Shared autonomy and positive power control for powered exoskeletons

B Beiter, D Srinivasan, A Leonessa - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2024 - Elsevier
Powered exoskeletons have been shown to significantly reduce physical workload during
occupational tasks. Due to this they have great potential impact on future labor practices …

Robust adaptive trajectory tracking of nonlinear systems based on input-to-state stability tracking control Lyapunov functions

Y Satoh, M Iwashita, O Sakata - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a trajectory-tracking controller for input-affine nonlinear systems,
which guarantees robustness in the presence of both input uncertainties and external …

Model Predictive Control for Tremor Suppressing Exoskeleton

S Samal, O Barry - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on the application of model-based predictive control (MPC) for a full wrist
exoskeleton designed for the alleviation of tremors in patients suffering from Parkinson's …