TY - GEN
T1 - Reducing muscle effort in walking through powered exoskeletons
AU - Lenzi, T.
AU - Zanotto, D.
AU - Stegall, P.
AU - Carrozza, M. C.
AU - Agrawal, S. K.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - This paper presents a novel assistive control for lower limb exoskeletons. The controller provides the user with a scaled version of the Winter's nominal torque profile, which is adapted online to the specific gait features of the user. The proposed assistive controller is implemented on the ALEX II exoskeleton and tested on two healthy subjects. Experimental results show that when assisted by the exoskeleton users can reduce the muscle effort compared to free walking.
AB - This paper presents a novel assistive control for lower limb exoskeletons. The controller provides the user with a scaled version of the Winter's nominal torque profile, which is adapted online to the specific gait features of the user. The proposed assistive controller is implemented on the ALEX II exoskeleton and tested on two healthy subjects. Experimental results show that when assisted by the exoskeleton users can reduce the muscle effort compared to free walking.
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U2 - 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346825
DO - 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346825
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 23366786
AN - SCOPUS:84870835843
SN - 9781424441198
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
SP - 3926
EP - 3929
BT - 2012 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2012
T2 - 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS 2012
Y2 - 28 August 2012 through 1 September 2012
ER -