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- In order to develop an under-suit that doesn’t interrupt wearer’s free movement, researchers are trying to make it soft and deformable, but still capable of applying force to body joints.
- Harvard Biodesign group, one of a project groups in this program, is trying to make their warrior web suit soft and light, and they call their suit harvard exosuit.
- Experimental data proved that it can help loaded walking by reducing metabolic costs.
Challenges
- it is difficult to analyze the effectivness of exosuit
- 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
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- reasons for the challenges are
- The under-suit may be soft and
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- deformable
- Hard to identify how external actuation assists loaded gait.
Experimental metabolic cost data is inconsistent
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Goals
Through this projects, I would like to
Research Questions
Strategy
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