Development of a body weight support system using pneumatic muscle actuators: Controlling and validation
| Autor: | Shin-ichiroh Yamamoto, Tran Van Thuc |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
0209 industrial biotechnology
Scope (project management) Pneumatic actuator Computer science Mechanical Engineering lcsh:Mechanical engineering and machinery 0206 medical engineering Work (physics) Body weight support Control engineering 02 engineering and technology 020601 biomedical engineering 020901 industrial engineering & automation Gait training lcsh:TJ1-1570 Actuator Pneumatic muscle actuator |
| Zdroj: | Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Vol 8 (2016) |
| ISSN: | 1687-8140 |
| Popis: | This study introduces the development of a new body weight support system using pneumatic actuators for gait training. The main scope of this work is to provide a new design, validation, and assessment for active body weight support systems to reproduce a subject’s normal walking behavior. Based on the assessments and its evaluations, the novel body weight support system using pneumatic muscle actuators shows many advantageous characteristics, such as simplicity, low cost, maintenance of a constant unloading force, and ease of control of the supported force. The capability of the novel body weight support system to generate unloading forces that track the center of pressure, because it switches from left to right and vice versa as the subject walks, is especially interesting. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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