Title
Scale Force Control of an Exoskeleton for Human Performance Augmentation
Abstract
Exoskeletons for human performance augmentation have been widely applied in many environments, ranging from military, industry, to construction. For load-carrying augmentation exoskeletons, one of the key issues is to control the human-robot interaction (HRI) force. This paper firstly proposes a unified framework for scale force control (SFC) of human-bearing augmentation exoskeleton (HBAE) and robot-bearing augmentation exoskeleton (RBAE). Furthermore, a mid-level SFC method was proposed, in the light of both cognitive and physical HRIs (cHRI and pHRI). On this basis, a hybrid low-level controller was designed for load-carrying exoskeletons (LCEs). Finally, the proposed method was simulated on an LCE. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our SFC approach: the pilot is always provided with an arbitrary scaled-down interaction force, regardless of the load state.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1007/s10846-022-01611-6
Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Scale force control (SFC), Augmentation exoskeleton, Load-carrying exoskeleton (LCE), Hybrid control
Journal
106
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0921-0296
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lang Lin100.34
Xiao Junhao200.34
Sun Yunshu300.34
Lu Huimin400.68
Zongtan Zhou541233.89
Yang Chunbaixue600.34