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Flexible Exoskeleton Gait Training System

  We designed and manufactured a pneumatic-driven robotic passive gait training system (PRPGTS), providing the functions of body-weight support, postural support, and gait orthosis for patients who suffer from weakened lower limbs. The PRPGTS was designed as a soft-joint gait training rehabilitation system. The soft joints provide passive safety for patients. The PRPGTS features three subsystems: a pneumatic body weight support system, a pneumatic postural support system, and a pneumatic gait orthosis system. The dynamic behavior of these three subsystems are all involved in the PRPGTS, causing an extremely complicated dynamic behavior; therefore, this study applies five individual interval type-2 fuzzy sliding controllers (IT2FSC) to compensate for the system uncertainties and disturbances in the PRGTS. The IT2FSCs can provide accurate and correct positional trajectories under passive safety protection. The feasibility of weight reduction and gait training with the PRPGTS using the IT2FSCs is demonstrated with a healthy person, and the experimental results show that the PRPGTS is stable and provides a high-trajectory tracking performance.

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1. Pneumatic body-weight support

2. Pneumatic postural support

3. Human–machine interface

4. Pneumatic lower-limb exoskeleton

5. Treadmill

6. Embedded control system

特點:

  1. 動態懸吊系統和有效的步態訓練。

  2. 通過使用氣動閥實現低成本。

  3. 重新學習走路的合規性和安全性

創新點:

用氣動元件驅動,結合氣壓傳動技術的柔順性、安全性與輕巧性,並將驅動器和阻尼器合二為一,模擬人體肌肉的作動效果,實現下肢的步態訓練。

Gait Parameter Extraction
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Complete gait-training cycle for the right leg
Complete gait-training cycle for the right leg
Pneumatic Lower-limb Exoskeleton
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Hip joint trajectory
Knee joint trajectory
Gait trajectory tracking control
Pneumatic Lower-limb Exoskeleton
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Safe and Compliant  Test
 Joint angle trajectory tracking safety test
Novel Proxy-Based Sliding Mode Control (NPSMC)
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(a) tracking control response,
(b) tracking error, and
(c) voltage control output
 Joint angle trajectory tracking safety test
Novel Proxy-Based Sliding Mode Control (NPSMC)
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(a) tracking control response,
(b) tracking error, and
(c) voltage control output

​Vedio

Achievements

1. 中華民國發明專利:I555556 ; 美國發明專利:US10,292,892 B2

2. 台北國際發明展暨技術交易展 金牌獎;  高雄國際發明暨設計展 金牌獎 ;

3. NI全球學生專題競賽 全球Top 10 (第五名)

4. 教育部全國技專校院實務專題製作競賽 季軍

5. 技術移轉:台灣氣立股份有限公司 (上市)

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