Lower Extremity Exoskeletons and Active Orthoses: Challenges and State-of-the-Art

By Aaron M. Dollar, Hugh M. Herr. IEEE Transactions on robotics, 2008

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Rehabilitation

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Stronger, Smarter, Softer: Next-Generation Wearable Robots (2014, background): “Some exoskeletons have enabled individuals to walk if they were not able to previously, supporting their entire body weight or a large percentage of it [1]–[3], while others are designed to help able-bodied individuals walk while expending less energy [4]–[9], assist impaired individuals [15], or ch”
Lower Limb Wearable Robots for Assistance and Rehabilitation: A State of the Art (2016, background): “designed, and many associated researches have been conducted in this field [6], [19].”
A lightweight soft exosuit for gait assistance (2013, background): “In particular, considerable work has been conducted in the area of active exoskeletons for augmenting load carriage capacity [10-14].”
Autonomous exoskeleton reduces metabolic cost of human walking during load carriage (2014, background): “Autonomous devices capable of providing biologically equivalent le vels of joint mechanical power necessary for locomotion have been investigated, but the se devices were cumbersome and heavy [7,15,16].”
Review of assistive strategies in powered lower-limb orthoses and exoskeletons (2015, background): “The initial studies about lower-limb orthoses for motion assistance can date back to 1960s in Unites States [1] and in the former Yugoslavia [2], respectively with military and medical services purposes [3].”
Control strategies for active lower extremity prosthetics and orthotics: a review (2015, neutral): “Several related review papers have been published in recent years that comprehensively establish the state-ofthe-art in portable and active lower limb prosthetics, orthotics and exoskeletons, mostly in terms of the design and hardware realization [10-15].”
A Framework to Describe, Analyze and Generate Interactive Motor Behaviors (2012, background): “Recent years have seen the development of lower limb extenders, in particular for military applications [52].”
Human–Robot Interaction Control of Rehabilitation Robots With Series Elastic Actuators (2015, background): “Various assistive and rehabilitation robots have been developed [5], [6].”
A biologically inspired soft exosuit for walking assistance (2015, background): “Other systems were designed to augment healthy individuals, but these could also be used with impaired individuals for rehabilitation or assistance purposes, perhaps with modifications to their control strategies (Dollar and Herr, 2008; Herr, 2009).”
State of the Art and Future Directions for Lower Limb Robotic Exoskeletons (2017, background): “Extensive reviews of the DARPA exoskeletons and others developed during that time frame are available by Herr [13], [14].”