Predictive Simulations with OpenSim Moco to Investigate the Interaction Between Human and Assistive Exoskeleton.

Autor: Mosconi D, Bo APL, Siqueira AAG
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference [Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc] 2023 Jul; Vol. 2023, pp. 1-4.
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC40787.2023.10340617
Abstrakt: The purpose of this work was to investigate the interaction between human and lower limbs assistive exoskeleton under different levels of assistance, by using computational simulations. To this, a human-exoskeleton interaction model was used and three predictive simulations were carried out with the OpenSim Moco. The results proved that the increase in the level of robot assistance causes a reduction in human effort. In addition, it was possible to verify the RMS torque of both the robot and the human, as well as the muscle activations, for the different levels of assistance simulated. For future work, we intend to run predictive simulations with more complex movements, such as gait free and with obstacles, in addition to using models that can represent a human being with muscle weakness on one side of the body (hemiparesis).
Databáze: MEDLINE