mkjung99
05-10-2011, 08:11 AM
Dear all,
I'm nearly new to exoskeleton research.
Recently I've been interested in it so I've tried to find some previous works about exoskeleton design.
Due to lack of my knowledge, I could see that there may be mainly three research trends about exoskeleton:
mechanical hardware design, control methods and physiological(biomechanical) experiments .
My interest of exoskeleton design is how to determine the actuator's specification(Torque and Power) according to the required tasks.
Because the actuators in the rehabilitation exoskeleton should be different from the actuators in the military one.
I think that it may be very important because the approximate specification of actuators should be determined before the real prototype of exoskeleton can be made.
The reasons are that we want to avoid wasting of budget and the mechanical design of exoskeleton may be modified continually.
To evaluate the actuator's specification better, I think that we should put both exoskeleton and human into the same simulation environment.
Then we may evaluate the actuator's specification well considering the human-exoskeleton interactions.
We may be able to use both forward and inverse dynamics.
So I'd like to ask of you whether there are some research activities of exoskeleton design for human-exoskeleton combined model using musculoskeletal dynamics.
Of course I may not find existing research results due to my carelessness then I'm sorry in advance.
I hope to get your advices.
Best regards,
Moonki
I'm nearly new to exoskeleton research.
Recently I've been interested in it so I've tried to find some previous works about exoskeleton design.
Due to lack of my knowledge, I could see that there may be mainly three research trends about exoskeleton:
mechanical hardware design, control methods and physiological(biomechanical) experiments .
My interest of exoskeleton design is how to determine the actuator's specification(Torque and Power) according to the required tasks.
Because the actuators in the rehabilitation exoskeleton should be different from the actuators in the military one.
I think that it may be very important because the approximate specification of actuators should be determined before the real prototype of exoskeleton can be made.
The reasons are that we want to avoid wasting of budget and the mechanical design of exoskeleton may be modified continually.
To evaluate the actuator's specification better, I think that we should put both exoskeleton and human into the same simulation environment.
Then we may evaluate the actuator's specification well considering the human-exoskeleton interactions.
We may be able to use both forward and inverse dynamics.
So I'd like to ask of you whether there are some research activities of exoskeleton design for human-exoskeleton combined model using musculoskeletal dynamics.
Of course I may not find existing research results due to my carelessness then I'm sorry in advance.
I hope to get your advices.
Best regards,
Moonki