Wearable Exoskeleton Systems - Design, control and applications

In this book, the editors and authors report recent advances and technology breakthroughs in exoskeleton developments. It will be of interest to engineers and researchers in academia and industry as well as manufacturing companies interested in developing new markets in wearable exoskeleton robotics.

List of contents

• Section 1: Review and overall requirements
  
  
  • Chapter 1: Lower-limb wearable robotics
  
  
  • Chapter 2: Review of exoskeletons for medical and service applications: ongoing research in Europe on wearable robots, with focus on lower extremity exoskeletons
  
  
  • Chapter 3: Soft wearable robots
  
  
  • Chapter 4: Exploring user requirements for a lower body soft exoskeleton to assist mobility
  
  
  
  
  
• Section 2: Design and control of exoskeletons
  
  
  • Chapter 5: Design and control of spherical shoulder exoskeletons for assistive applications
  
  
  • Chapter 6: Calibration platform for wearable 3D motion sensors
  
  
  • Chapter 7: Control and performance of upper- and lower extremity SEA-based exoskeletons
  
  
  • Chapter 8: Gait-event-based synchronization and control of a compact portable knee-ankle-foot exoskeleton robot for gait rehabilitation
  
  
  
  
  
• Section 3: Devices
  
  
  • Chapter 9: Real-time gait planning for a lower limb exoskeleton robot
  
  
  • Chapter 10: Soft wearable assistive robotics: exosuits and supernumerary limbs
  
  
  • Chapter 11: Walking assistive apparatus for gait training patients and promotion exercise of the elderly
  
  
  
  
  
• Section 4: Commercialization issues
  
  
  • Chapter 12: Regulatory issues for exoskeletons
  
  
  • Chapter 13: Test methods for exoskeletons - lessons learned from industrial and response robotics
  
  
  • Chapter 14: Ekso Bionics
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Summary

  In this book, the editors and authors report recent advances and technology breakthroughs in exoskeleton developments. It will be of interest to engineers and researchers in academia and industry as well as manufacturing companies interested in developing new markets in wearable exoskeleton robotics.

Product details

• Assisted by: Shaoping Bai (Editor), Shaoping (Associate Professor Bai (Editor), Thomas Sugar (Editor), Thomas (Professor Sugar (Editor), Gurvinder Singh Virk (Editor), Gurvinder Singh (Technical Director Virk (Editor)
• Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781785613029
• ISBN: 978-1-78561-302-9
• No. of pages: 408
• Dimensions: 241 mm x 165 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 780 g
• Series: Control, Robotics and Sensors; Control, Robotics and Sensors
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Mechanical engineering, production engineering