A Subject-Specific Kinematic Model to Predict Human Motion in Exoskeleton-Assisted Gait

Frontiers in Neurorobotics
Diego TorricelliJose L Pons

Abstract

The relative motion between human and exoskeleton is a crucial factor that has remarkable consequences on the efficiency, reliability and safety of human-robot interaction. Unfortunately, its quantitative assessment has been largely overlooked in the literature. Here, we present a methodology that allows predicting the motion of the human joints from the knowledge of the angular motion of the exoskeleton frame. Our method combines a subject-specific skeletal model with a kinematic model of a lower limb exoskeleton (H2, Technaid), imposing specific kinematic constraints between them. To calibrate the model and validate its ability to predict the relative motion in a subject-specific way, we performed experiments on seven healthy subjects during treadmill walking tasks. We demonstrate a prediction accuracy lower than 3.5° globally, and around 1.5° at the hip level, which represent an improvement up to 66% compared to the traditional approach assuming no relative motion between the user and the exoskeleton.

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Dec 29, 2020·Frontiers in Neurorobotics·Ryan-David ReyesRonald Triolo
Dec 17, 2020·Sensors·Binbin Su, Elena M Gutierrez-Farewik

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OpenSim
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