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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Volume | 2018-July |
| ISSN (Print) | 1557-170X |
Other
| Other | 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2018 |
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| Country | United States |
| City | Honolulu |
| Period | 7/18/18 → 7/21/18 |
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Signal Processing
- Biomedical Engineering
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Health Informatics
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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).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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