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Design and Actuator Optimization of Lightweight and Compliant Knee Exoskeleton for Mobility Assistance of Children with Crouch Gait
Sainan Zhang, Tzu-Hao Huang, Chunhai Jiao +4
Pediatric exoskeletons offer great promise to increase mobility for children with crouch gait caused by cerebral palsy. A lightweight, compliant and user-specific actuator is criti…
Quasi-Direct Drive Actuation for a Lightweight Hip Exoskeleton with High Backdrivability and High Bandwidth
Shuangyue Yu, Tzu-Hao Huang, Xiaolong Yang +7
High-performance actuators are crucial to enable mechanical versatility of lower-limb wearable robots, which are required to be lightweight, highly backdrivable, and with high band…
Spine-Inspired Continuum Soft Exoskeleton for Stoop Lifting Assistance
Xiaolong Yang, Tzu-Hao Huang, Hang Hu +6
Back injuries are the most prevalent work-related musculoskeletal disorders and represent a major cause of disability. Although innovations in wearable robots aim to alleviate this…
A Soft High Force Hand Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation and Assistance of Spinal Cord Injury and Stroke Individuals
Shuangyue Yu, Hadia Perez, James Barkas +7
Individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) and stroke who is lack of manipulation capability have a particular need for robotic hand exoskeletons. Among assistive and rehabilitative…
Comfort-Centered Design of a Lightweight and Backdrivable Knee Exoskeleton
Junlin Wang, Xiao Li, Tzu-Hao Huang +6
This paper presents design principles for comfort-centered wearable robots and their application in a lightweight and backdrivable knee exoskeleton. The mitigation of discomfort is…
Design and Control of a Quasi-Direct Drive Soft Exoskeleton for Knee Injury Prevention during Squatting
Shuangyue Yu, Tzu-Hao Huang, Dianpeng Wang +6
This paper presents design and control innovations of wearable robots that tackle two barriers to widespread adoption of powered exoskeletons, namely restriction of human movement…