Mechanical Design and Control Strategy for Hip Joint Power Assisting

J Healthc Eng. 2018 Aug 15:2018:9712926. doi: 10.1155/2018/9712926. eCollection 2018.

Abstract

The basic requirements for mechanical design and control strategy are adapting to human joint movements and building an interaction model between human and robot. In this paper, a 3-UPS parallel mechanism is adopted to realize that the instantaneous rotation center of the assistive system coincides with human joint movement center, and a force sensory system is used to detect human movement intention and build the modeling of control strategy based on the interactive force. Then, based on the constructed experimental platform, the feasibility of movement intention detection and power assisting are verified through the experimental results.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Biomechanical Phenomena
  • Computer Simulation
  • Electromyography
  • Equipment Design
  • Exoskeleton Device*
  • Hip Joint / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Models, Biological
  • Movement*
  • Muscle, Skeletal
  • Robotics*
  • Rotation
  • Stress, Mechanical
  • Walking