Development of a lower limb rehabilitation exoskeleton based on real-time gait detection and gait tracking

Advances in Mechanical Engineering - Tập 8 Số 1 - 2016
Chao Zhang1, Gangfeng Liu1, Changle Li1, Jie Zhao1, Hongying Yu2, Yanhe Zhu1
1State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System (Harbin Institute of Technology), Harbin, China
2School of Mechatronics Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

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Hemiplegia, apoplexia, or traffic accidents often lead to unilateral lower limb movement disorders. Traditional lower limb rehabilitation equipments usually execute walk training based on fixed gait trajectory; however, this type is unsuitable for unilateral lower limb disorders because they still have athletic ability and initiative walking intention on the healthy side. This article describes a wearable lower limb rehabilitation exoskeleton with a walk-assisting platform for safety and anti-gravity support. The exoskeleton detects and tracks the motion of the healthy leg, which is then used as the control input of the dyskinetic leg with half a gate-cycle delay. The patient can undergo walk training on his own intention, including individual walking habit, stride length, and stride frequency, which likely contribute to the training initiative. The series elastic actuator is chosen for the exoskeleton because the torque output can be accurately detected and used to calculate the assisted torque on the dyskinetic leg. This parameter corresponds to the recovery level of a patient’s muscle force. Finally, the walk-assisting experiments reveal that the rehabilitation exoskeleton in this article can provide the necessary assisting torques on the dyskinetic leg, which can be accurately monitored in real time to evaluate a patient’s rehabilitation status.

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