A real-time stable-control gait switching strategy for lower-limb rehabilitation exoskeleton

PLoS One. 2020 Aug 27;15(8):e0238247. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0238247. eCollection 2020.

Abstract

Switching different gait according to different movements is an important direction in the study of exoskeleton robot. Identifying the movement intention of the wearer to control the gait planning of the exoskeleton robot can effectively improve the man-machine interaction experience after the exoskeleton. This paper uses a support vector machine (SVM) to realize wearer's motion posture recognition by collecting sEMG signals on the human surface. The moving gait of the exoskeleton is planned according to the recognition results, and the decoding intention signal controls gait switching. Meanwhile, the stability of the planned gait during the movement was analyzed. Experimental results show that the sEMG signal decoding human motion intentional, and control exoskeleton robot gait switching has good accuracy and real-time performance. It helps patients to complete rehabilitation training more safely and quickly.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Electromyography / methods
  • Exoskeleton Device
  • Gait / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Lower Extremity / physiology*
  • Motion
  • Movement / physiology
  • Robotics / methods
  • Support Vector Machine

Grants and funding

The work described in this paper is partially supported by the National key research and development plan 51767005, Guangxi Natural Science Foundation Project 2016GXNSFAA380328 and National Natural Science Foundation Program 2017YFB1302303.