A Method to Accurately Estimate the Muscular Torques of Human Wearing Exoskeletons by Torque Sensors

被引:51
作者
Hwang, Beomsoo [1 ]
Jeon, Doyoung [1 ]
机构
[1] Sogang Univ, Dept Mech Engn, Seoul 121742, South Korea
关键词
EMG; IDENTIFICATION; STRATEGIES; MOMENTS;
D O I
10.3390/s150408337
中图分类号
O65 [分析化学];
学科分类号
070302 ; 081704 ;
摘要
In exoskeletal robots, the quantification of the user's muscular effort is important to recognize the user's motion intentions and evaluate motor abilities. In this paper, we attempt to estimate users' muscular efforts accurately using joint torque sensor which contains the measurements of dynamic effect of human body such as the inertial, Coriolis, and gravitational torques as well as torque by active muscular effort. It is important to extract the dynamic effects of the user's limb accurately from the measured torque. The user's limb dynamics are formulated and a convenient method of identifying user-specific parameters is suggested for estimating the user's muscular torque in robotic exoskeletons. Experiments were carried out on a wheelchair-integrated lower limb exoskeleton, EXOwheel, which was equipped with torque sensors in the hip and knee joints. The proposed methods were evaluated by 10 healthy participants during body weight-supported gait training. The experimental results show that the torque sensors are to estimate the muscular torque accurately in cases of relaxed and activated muscle conditions.
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页码:8337 / 8357
页数:21
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