Automatic load-adapting passive upper limb exoskeleton
The passive exoskeleton with an automatic load-adapting mechanism is proposed in the article, which can assist people to do rehabilitation exercise and be used for the load carrying. The structure of the overall design is expounded in detail. In order to achieve a more efficient arrangement of space...
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| author | Yanhe Zhu Guoan Zhang Hongwu Li Jie Zhao |
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| description | The passive exoskeleton with an automatic load-adapting mechanism is proposed in the article, which can assist people to do rehabilitation exercise and be used for the load carrying. The structure of the overall design is expounded in detail. In order to achieve a more efficient arrangement of space structure and to reduce the weight of the structure, a gas spring was selected as the passive energy actor. Furthermore, through effective design, the capability of automatic load-adapting was achieved in the structure. As the characteristics of the gas spring force will change with increasing elongation, curve fitting of the function to the gas spring force was achieved by the structural design. As a result, the performance of the exoskeleton was improved significantly after balancing. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-75a894452a3a47c9b3ebe6553dc6caff2022-12-21T17:34:42ZengSAGE PublishingAdvances in Mechanical Engineering1687-81402017-09-01910.1177/1687814017729949Automatic load-adapting passive upper limb exoskeletonYanhe ZhuGuoan ZhangHongwu LiJie ZhaoThe passive exoskeleton with an automatic load-adapting mechanism is proposed in the article, which can assist people to do rehabilitation exercise and be used for the load carrying. The structure of the overall design is expounded in detail. In order to achieve a more efficient arrangement of space structure and to reduce the weight of the structure, a gas spring was selected as the passive energy actor. Furthermore, through effective design, the capability of automatic load-adapting was achieved in the structure. As the characteristics of the gas spring force will change with increasing elongation, curve fitting of the function to the gas spring force was achieved by the structural design. As a result, the performance of the exoskeleton was improved significantly after balancing.https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814017729949 |
| spellingShingle | Yanhe Zhu Guoan Zhang Hongwu Li Jie Zhao Automatic load-adapting passive upper limb exoskeleton Advances in Mechanical Engineering |
| title | Automatic load-adapting passive upper limb exoskeleton |
| title_full | Automatic load-adapting passive upper limb exoskeleton |
| title_fullStr | Automatic load-adapting passive upper limb exoskeleton |
| title_full_unstemmed | Automatic load-adapting passive upper limb exoskeleton |
| title_short | Automatic load-adapting passive upper limb exoskeleton |
| title_sort | automatic load adapting passive upper limb exoskeleton |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1177/1687814017729949 |
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