Title
Optimisation of Reference Gait Trajectory of a Lower Limb Exoskeleton.
Abstract
Lower limb exoskeletons have gained considerable interest in recent years as a research topic for creating aids for people with walking disabilities and strength augmenters for pilot walkers. A crucial practical problem, however, is generating the reference trajectory of the joints. In this paper, we solve the reference trajectory problem by a novel approach which obtains the angle trajectories of knee joints from the hip joints. The relationship between the angle trajectories of the knee and hip joints is acquired through kinematic models of the lower limb exoskeleton. In these models, the parameters of the joint position trajectories are optimised by a swarm fish algorithm with variable population. The proposed approach is validated in virtual simulations and a physical prototype of an exoskeleton system. The experimental results confirm that the reference trajectory generation approach accurately reproduces human walking.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-015-0334-7
I. J. Social Robotics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Lower limb exoskeleton,Kinematic model,Trajectory generation,Swarm fish algorithm
Population,Kinematics,Gait,Swarm behaviour,Simulation,Psychology,Artificial intelligence,Exoskeleton,Trajectory,Robotics,Biomechanical engineering
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
2
1875-4791
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.40
17
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rui Huang16123.21
Hong Cheng2212.05
Yi Chen3386.80
qiming chen4165.28
Xichuan Lin5324.47
Jing Qiu610.40