FlexSEA-Execute: Advanced motion controller for wearable robotic applications

© 2016 IEEE. Wearable robots, such as powered prostheses and active exoskeletons, often rely on electric motors for actuation. Emulating biological joint angle and torque profiles requires special sensors, high peak power and advanced real-Time controls. Safety is paramount and fail-safe circuits ar...

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Main Authors: Duval, Jean-Francois, Herr, Hugh M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/138016
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description © 2016 IEEE. Wearable robots, such as powered prostheses and active exoskeletons, often rely on electric motors for actuation. Emulating biological joint angle and torque profiles requires special sensors, high peak power and advanced real-Time controls. Safety is paramount and fail-safe circuits are required to detect and correct problematic situations. A smaller, lighter circuit can lead to a more efficient and affordable robot. Few commercial motor drivers accommodate all of these requirements. In this paper we present FlexSEA-Execute (Figure 1), the advanced motion controller part of FlexSEA, the FLEXible, Scalable Electronics Architecture designed for wearable robotic applications. At 36cm3 and 34.8g, this PSoC-based design integrates a 8A/25A (continuous/pulse) brushed/brushless motor driver, a safety co-processor, multi-drop RS-485, a strain gauge amplifier, a 6-Axis inertial motion unit (IMU), USB, and a programmable expansion connector.
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spelling mit-1721.1/1380162021-11-10T03:22:39Z FlexSEA-Execute: Advanced motion controller for wearable robotic applications Duval, Jean-Francois Herr, Hugh M. © 2016 IEEE. Wearable robots, such as powered prostheses and active exoskeletons, often rely on electric motors for actuation. Emulating biological joint angle and torque profiles requires special sensors, high peak power and advanced real-Time controls. Safety is paramount and fail-safe circuits are required to detect and correct problematic situations. A smaller, lighter circuit can lead to a more efficient and affordable robot. Few commercial motor drivers accommodate all of these requirements. In this paper we present FlexSEA-Execute (Figure 1), the advanced motion controller part of FlexSEA, the FLEXible, Scalable Electronics Architecture designed for wearable robotic applications. At 36cm3 and 34.8g, this PSoC-based design integrates a 8A/25A (continuous/pulse) brushed/brushless motor driver, a safety co-processor, multi-drop RS-485, a strain gauge amplifier, a 6-Axis inertial motion unit (IMU), USB, and a programmable expansion connector. 2021-11-09T18:38:44Z 2021-11-09T18:38:44Z 2016-06 2019-07-22T16:25:45Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/138016 Duval, Jean-Francois and Herr, Hugh M. 2016. "FlexSEA-Execute: Advanced motion controller for wearable robotic applications." en 10.1109/biorob.2016.7523771 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf IEEE MIT web domain
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