Compliant lower limb exoskeletons: a comprehensive review on mechanical design principles

MC Sanchez-Villamañan, J Gonzalez-Vargas… - … of neuroengineering and …, 2019 - Springer
Exoskeleton technology has made significant advances during the last decade, resulting in
a considerable variety of solutions for gait assistance and rehabilitation. The mechanical …

Lower limb exoskeleton systems—overview

H Lee, PW Ferguson, J Rosen - Wearable Robotics, 2020 - Elsevier
Lower body wearable robots, or lower limb exoskeletons, have developed rapidly in the past
decade. These devices can be separated into three different categories: assistive …

Lower limb exoskeleton sensors: state-of-the-art

S Neťuková, M Bejtic, C Malá, L Horáková, P Kutílek… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Due to the ever-increasing proportion of older people in the total population and the growing
awareness of the importance of protecting workers against physical overload during long …

Lower limb rehabilitation robotics: The current understanding and technology

S Bhardwaj, AA Khan, M Muzammil - Work, 2021 - content.iospress.com
BACKGROUND: With the increasing rate of ambulatory disabilities and rise in the elderly
population, advance methods to deliver the rehabilitation and assistive services to patients …

Design and evaluation of a torque-controllable knee joint actuator with adjustable series compliance and parallel elasticity

T Bacek, M Moltedo, C Rodriguez-Guerrero… - … and Machine Theory, 2018 - Elsevier
Compliant actuators are increasingly being designed for wearable robots (WRs) to more
adequately address their issues with safety, wearability, and overall system efficiency. The …

[PDF][PDF] A review on human-exoskeleton coordination towards lower limb robotic exoskeleton systems

Y Ma, X Wu, J Yi, C Wang, C Chen - Int. J. Robot. Autom, 2019 - researchgate.net
The study of lower extremity exoskeleton robots has been pursued for many years and is
now receiving significant attention. A number of review articles have focused on describing …

Hamilton–Jacobi inequality adaptive robust learning tracking controller of wearable robotic knee system

H Jerbi, I Al-Darraji, G Tsaramirsis, L Ladhar, M Omri - Mathematics, 2023 - mdpi.com
A Wearable Robotic Knee (WRK) is a mobile device designed to assist disabled individuals
in moving freely in undefined environments without external support. An advanced controller …

Design optimization of a variable stiffness actuator for knee exoskeleton application

A Aljarah, MI Awad, M Boushaki, I Hussain - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The field of wearable devices and exoskeletons for rehabilitation and assistance is one of
the main fields where variable stiffness actuators (VSAs) are continuously incorporated. This …

I-BaR: integrated balance rehabilitation framework

T Ersoy, P Kaya, E Hocaoglu, R Unal - Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Neurological diseases are observed in approximately 1 billion people worldwide. A further
increase is foreseen at the global level as a result of population growth and aging …

Novel design of a rotation center auto-matched ankle rehabilitation exoskeleton with decoupled control capacity

T Wang, E Olivoni… - Journal of …, 2022 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This article presents a novel ankle rehabilitation exoskeleton for poststroke patients, the
rotational center of which can automatically conform to each individual user's ankle complex …