A Soft Wearable Robotic Suit for Ankle and Hip Assistance: A Preliminary Study

Shanhai Jin; Shijie Guo; Kazunobu Hashimoto; Xiaogang Xiong; Motoji Yamamoto

doi:10.1109/EMBC.2018.8512599

A Soft Wearable Robotic Suit for Ankle and Hip Assistance: A Preliminary Study

Shanhai Jin, Shijie Guo, Kazunobu Hashimoto, Xiaogang Xiong, Motoji Yamamoto

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Abstract

As a walking assistive device, one of major goals should be reduce wearer's metabolic cost as much as possible. Toward this goal, this paper presents the preliminary study on a new soft wearable robotic suit for ankle and hip assistance for daily life activities. The presented robotic suit is lightweight, and it almost does not restrict the lower limb motion range. In addition, its structure is simple, and thus wearers can easily take the device on and off by themselves. Experimental results on two young subjects show that the robotic suit reduced metabolic cost with averaged reductions of 10.2 % and 6.8 %, respectively, by not drastically disrupting the normal walking biomechanics of the subjects.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	1867-1870
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538636466
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2018.8512599
Publication status	Published - Oct 26 2018
Event	40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018 - Honolulu, United States Duration: Jul 18 2018 → Jul 21 2018

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
Volume	2018-July
ISSN (Print)	1557-170X

Other

Other	40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018
Country	United States
City	Honolulu
Period	7/18/18 → 7/21/18

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Signal Processing
Biomedical Engineering
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Health Informatics

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Jin, S., Guo, S., Hashimoto, K., Xiong, X., & Yamamoto, M. (2018). A Soft Wearable Robotic Suit for Ankle and Hip Assistance: A Preliminary Study. In 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018 (pp. 1867-1870). [8512599] (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS; Vol. 2018-July). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2018.8512599

A Soft Wearable Robotic Suit for Ankle and Hip Assistance : A Preliminary Study. / Jin, Shanhai; Guo, Shijie; Hashimoto, Kazunobu; Xiong, Xiaogang; Yamamoto, Motoji.

40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018. p. 1867-1870 8512599 (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS; Vol. 2018-July).

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Jin, S, Guo, S, Hashimoto, K, Xiong, X & Yamamoto, M 2018, A Soft Wearable Robotic Suit for Ankle and Hip Assistance: A Preliminary Study. in 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018., 8512599, Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS, vol. 2018-July, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 1867-1870, 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018, Honolulu, United States, 7/18/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2018.8512599

Jin S, Guo S, Hashimoto K, Xiong X, Yamamoto M. A Soft Wearable Robotic Suit for Ankle and Hip Assistance: A Preliminary Study. In 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2018. p. 1867-1870. 8512599. (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS). https://doi.org/10.1109/EMBC.2018.8512599

Jin, Shanhai ; Guo, Shijie ; Hashimoto, Kazunobu ; Xiong, Xiaogang ; Yamamoto, Motoji. / A Soft Wearable Robotic Suit for Ankle and Hip Assistance : A Preliminary Study. 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018. pp. 1867-1870 (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS).

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