Reducing the metabolic cost of running with a tethered soft exosuit

Sci Robot. 2017 May 31;2(6):eaan6708. doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.aan6708. Epub 2017 May 31.

Authors

G Lee^{1

2}, J Kim^{1

2}, F A Panizzolo^{1

2}, Y M Zhou^{1

2}, L M Baker^{1

2}, I Galiana^{1

2}, P Malcolm^{3

1}, C J Walsh^{4

2}

Affiliations

¹ John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
² Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
³ Department of Biomechanics and Center for Research in Human Movement Variability, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182, USA. walsh@seas.harvard.edu pmalcolm@unomaha.edu.
⁴ John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. walsh@seas.harvard.edu pmalcolm@unomaha.edu.

PMID: 33157875
DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.aan6708

Abstract

Assisting hip extension with a tethered exosuit and a simulation-optimized force profile reduces metabolic cost of running.

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