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 …

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 …

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 …

A versatile knee exoskeleton mitigates quadriceps fatigue in lifting, lowering, and carrying tasks

NV Divekar, GC Thomas, AR Yerva, HB Frame… - Science Robotics, 2024 - science.org
The quadriceps are particularly susceptible to fatigue during repetitive lifting, lowering, and
carrying (LLC), affecting worker performance, posture, and ultimately lower-back injury risk …

Lower-Extremity Exoskeleton for Human Spinal Cord Injury: A Comprehensive Review

T Wang, Z Song, H Wen, C Liu - IEEE Open Journal of the …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Locomotion disorder caused by spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to a considerably decreased
quality of people's lives. Although there are no known cure methods for SCI, a lower …

A modular framework for task-agnostic, energy shaping control of lower limb exoskeletons

J Lin, GC Thomas, NV Divekar… - … on Control Systems …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Various backdrivable lower limb exoskeletons have demonstrated the electromechanical
capability to assist volitional motions of able-bodied users and people with mild to moderate …

The influence of gait phase on predicting lower-limb joint angles

D Hollinger, M Schall, H Chen, S Bass… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine learning has seen a rapid increase in applications that harness wearable signals to
improve human mobility. Previous work has used machine learning predictors as a means of …

Transfer Learning for Efficient Intent Prediction in Lower-Limb Prosthetics: A Strategy for Limited Datasets

D Le, S Cheng, RD Gregg… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents a transfer learning method to enhance locomotion intent prediction in
novel transfemoral amputee subjects, particularly in data-sparse scenarios. Transfer …

Applied Exoskeleton Technology: A Comprehensive Review of Physical and Cognitive Human–Robot Interaction

F Nazari, N Mohajer, D Nahavandi… - … on Cognitive and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Exoskeletons and orthoses are wearable mobile systems providing mechanical benefits to
users. Despite significant improvements in the last decades, the technology is not fully …

A Learning-Free Method for Locomotion Mode Prediction by Terrain Reconstruction and Visual-Inertial Odometry

S Zhao, Z Yu, Z Wang, H Liu, Z Zhou… - … on Neural Systems …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This research introduces a novel, highly precise, and learning-free approach to locomotion
mode prediction, a technique with potential for broad applications in the field of lower-limb …