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- it is difficult to analyze the effectivness of exosuitexist
- It is difficult to find the optimal input force for actuators to reduce the metabolic cost
- It is difficult to identify the effect of change of design parameters
- The reasons for the challenges are
- The under-suit may be soft and deformable
- Hard to identify how external actuation assists loaded gait.
Goals
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- Experimental metabolic cost data is inconsistent case by case
Project Goals
Through this project, I tried to resolve the challenges in developing exosuit with Opensim simulation. Simulation can help developing exosuit becauseIt can help systematic analysissoft wearable exosuit as it can gives an intuition on how exosuit help muscles, and what are the key features that one should care about when developing the suit.
I hope this project construct a systematic way of analyzing and designing exosuit.
•Evaluate the effectiveness of wearing active actuator on metabolic cost reduction during loaded walking.
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•Explain how exosuit can help loaded gait.
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•Verify the impact of changes in design parameters.
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•Find optimal control inputs for exosuit actuators.
Strategy
Experimental data
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