Journal of Bionic Engineering ›› 2022, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (3): 688-699.doi: 10.1007/s42235-022-00172-6

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Development and Evaluation of a Wearable Lower Limb Rehabilitation Robot

Wanting Li1, Keping Liu1, Chunxu Li2, Zhongbo Sun1, Shui Liu3, Jian Gu1   

  1. 1 Department of Control Engineering, Changchun University of Technology, Changchun 130012, China  2 Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL48AA, UK  3 School of Mechatronical Engineering, Changchun University of Technology, Changchun 130012, China
  • 收稿日期:2021-03-22 修回日期:2022-01-24 接受日期:2022-01-29 出版日期:2022-05-10 发布日期:2022-05-04
  • 通讯作者: Keping Liu E-mail:liukeping@ccut.edu.cn
  • 作者简介:Wanting Li1, Keping Liu1, Chunxu Li2, Zhongbo Sun1, Shui Liu3, Jian Gu1

Development and Evaluation of a Wearable Lower Limb Rehabilitation Robot

Wanting Li1, Keping Liu1, Chunxu Li2, Zhongbo Sun1, Shui Liu3, Jian Gu1   

  1. 1 Department of Control Engineering, Changchun University of Technology, Changchun 130012, China  2 Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL48AA, UK  3 School of Mechatronical Engineering, Changchun University of Technology, Changchun 130012, China
  • Received:2021-03-22 Revised:2022-01-24 Accepted:2022-01-29 Online:2022-05-10 Published:2022-05-04
  • Contact: Keping Liu E-mail:liukeping@ccut.edu.cn
  • About author:Wanting Li1, Keping Liu1, Chunxu Li2, Zhongbo Sun1, Shui Liu3, Jian Gu1

摘要: This paper introduces a rigid-flexible coupling wearable exoskeleton robot for lower limb, which is designed in light of gait biomechanics and beneficial for low limb movement disorders by implementing gait training. The rationality of the proposed mechanism is shown with the implementation of the dynamic simulation through MSC ADAMS. For the purposes of lightweight, the exoskeleton mechanism is optimized through finite element analysis. It can be concluded from performance evaluation experiment, the mechanism has certain advantages over existing exoskeleton robots, namely, comfortable, lightweight, low cost, which can be utilized for rehabilitation training in medical institutions or as a daily-walking ancillary equipment for patients.

关键词: Wearable rehabilitation robot, Biomechanics, Robot mechanism design, Virtual analysis

Abstract: This paper introduces a rigid-flexible coupling wearable exoskeleton robot for lower limb, which is designed in light of gait biomechanics and beneficial for low limb movement disorders by implementing gait training. The rationality of the proposed mechanism is shown with the implementation of the dynamic simulation through MSC ADAMS. For the purposes of lightweight, the exoskeleton mechanism is optimized through finite element analysis. It can be concluded from performance evaluation experiment, the mechanism has certain advantages over existing exoskeleton robots, namely, comfortable, lightweight, low cost, which can be utilized for rehabilitation training in medical institutions or as a daily-walking ancillary equipment for patients.

Key words: Wearable rehabilitation robot, Biomechanics, Robot mechanism design, Virtual analysis