TY - GEN
T1 - Modular one-to-many clutchable actuator for a soft elbow exosuit
AU - Canesi, M.
AU - Xiloyannis, M.
AU - Ajoudani, A.
AU - Biechi, A.
AU - Masia, L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/8/11
Y1 - 2017/8/11
N2 - Exoskeletons have been developed for a wide range of applications, from the military to the medical field, with the aim of augmenting human performance or compensating for neuromuscular deficiencies. However, to empower the high number of degrees of freedom of the human body, they often employ a high number of motors, increasing the size, weight and power consumption of the system. We hereby present an actuation strategy to empower our elbow exosuit that adopts a single motor to drive multiple, independently actuated, degrees of freedom. This paradigm, known as One-to-many, is achieved using a modular design where each module comprises a clutchable mechanism that allows to convert a single directional motion from the prime mover to a selectable bidirectional output. Moreover, the mechanism has a locking feature that enables the wearer of the exoskeleton to hold a static load with a minimal power consumption. We present a simple controller for the clutchable unit based on a finite-state machine model, and evaluate its performance for varying input velocities. The system is shown to have a bandwidth of 1.5 Hz, sufficient for daily elbow movements, whilst retaining a compact design.
AB - Exoskeletons have been developed for a wide range of applications, from the military to the medical field, with the aim of augmenting human performance or compensating for neuromuscular deficiencies. However, to empower the high number of degrees of freedom of the human body, they often employ a high number of motors, increasing the size, weight and power consumption of the system. We hereby present an actuation strategy to empower our elbow exosuit that adopts a single motor to drive multiple, independently actuated, degrees of freedom. This paradigm, known as One-to-many, is achieved using a modular design where each module comprises a clutchable mechanism that allows to convert a single directional motion from the prime mover to a selectable bidirectional output. Moreover, the mechanism has a locking feature that enables the wearer of the exoskeleton to hold a static load with a minimal power consumption. We present a simple controller for the clutchable unit based on a finite-state machine model, and evaluate its performance for varying input velocities. The system is shown to have a bandwidth of 1.5 Hz, sufficient for daily elbow movements, whilst retaining a compact design.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85034808196
U2 - 10.1109/ICORR.2017.8009489
DO - 10.1109/ICORR.2017.8009489
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 28814061
AN - SCOPUS:85034808196
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics
SP - 1679
EP - 1685
BT - 2017 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2017
A2 - Ajoudani, Arash
A2 - Artemiadis, Panagiotis
A2 - Beckerle, Philipp
A2 - Grioli, Giorgio
A2 - Lambercy, Olivier
A2 - Mombaur, Katja
A2 - Novak, Domen
A2 - Rauter, Georg
A2 - Rodriguez Guerrero, Carlos
A2 - Salvietti, Gionata
A2 - Amirabdollahian, Farshid
A2 - Balasubramanian, Sivakumar
A2 - Castellini, Claudio
A2 - Di Pino, Giovanni
A2 - Guo, Zhao
A2 - Hughes, Charmayne
A2 - Iida, Fumiya
A2 - Lenzi, Tommaso
A2 - Ruffaldi, Emanuele
A2 - Sergi, Fabrizio
A2 - Soh, Gim Song
A2 - Caimmi, Marco
A2 - Cappello, Leonardo
A2 - Carloni, Raffaella
A2 - Carlson, Tom
A2 - Casadio, Maura
A2 - Coscia, Martina
A2 - De Santis, Dalia
A2 - Forner-Cordero, Arturo
A2 - Howard, Matthew
A2 - Piovesan, Davide
A2 - Siqueira, Adriano
A2 - Sup, Frank
A2 - Lorenzo, Masia
A2 - Catalano, Manuel Giuseppe
A2 - Lee, Hyunglae
A2 - Menon, Carlo
A2 - Raspopovic, Stanisa
A2 - Rastgaar, Mo
A2 - Ronsse, Renaud
A2 - van Asseldonk, Edwin
A2 - Vanderborght, Bram
A2 - Venkadesan, Madhusudhan
A2 - Bianchi, Matteo
A2 - Braun, David
A2 - Godfrey, Sasha Blue
A2 - Mastrogiovanni, Fulvio
A2 - McDaid, Andrew
A2 - Rossi, Stefano
A2 - Zenzeri, Jacopo
A2 - Formica, Domenico
A2 - Karavas, Nikolaos
A2 - Marchal-Crespo, Laura
A2 - Reed, Kyle B.
A2 - Tagliamonte, Nevio Luigi
A2 - Burdet, Etienne
A2 - Basteris, Angelo
A2 - Campolo, Domenico
A2 - Deshpande, Ashish
A2 - Dubey, Venketesh
A2 - Hussain, Asif
A2 - Sanguineti, Vittorio
A2 - Unal, Ramazan
A2 - Caurin, Glauco Augusto de Paula
A2 - Koike, Yasuharu
A2 - Mazzoleni, Stefano
A2 - Park, Hyung-Soon
A2 - Remy, C. David
A2 - Saint-Bauzel, Ludovic
A2 - Tsagarakis, Nikos
A2 - Veneman, Jan
A2 - Zhang, Wenlong
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2017 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2017
Y2 - 17 July 2017 through 20 July 2017
ER -