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INSPIIRE - A Modular and Passive Exoskeleton to Investigate Human Walking and Balance

Vouga, Tristan
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Baud, Romain  
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Fasola, Jemina
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January 1, 2023
2023 International Conference On Rehabilitation Robotics, Icorr
International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR)

Powered exoskeletons for SCI patients are mainly limited by their inability to balance dynamically during walking. To investigate and understand the control strategies of human bipedal locomotion, we developed INSPIIRE, a passive exoskeleton. This device constrains the movements of able-bodied subjects to only hip and knee flexions and extensions, similar to most current active exoskeletons. In this paper, we detail the modular design and the mechanical implementation of the device. In preliminary experiments, we tested whether humans are able to handle dynamic walking without crutches, despite the limitation of lateral foot placement and locked ankles. Five healthy subjects showed the ability to stand and ambulate at an average speed of 1 m/s after 5 minutes of self-paced training. We found that while the hip abduction/adduction is constrained, the foot placement was made possible thanks to the pelvis yaw and residual flexibility of the exoskeleton segments in the lateral plan. This result points out that INSPIIRE is a reliable instrument to learn sagitally-constrained human locomotion, and the potential of investigating more dynamic walking, which is shown as possible in this implementation, even if only flexion/extension of the hip and knee are allowed.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/ICORR58425.2023.10304706
Web of Science ID

WOS:001103260000034

Author(s)
Vouga, Tristan
Baud, Romain  
Fasola, Jemina
Bouri, Mohamed  
Date Issued

2023-01-01

Publisher

IEEE

Publisher place

New York

Published in
2023 International Conference On Rehabilitation Robotics, Icorr
ISBN of the book

979-8-3503-4275-8

Subjects

Technology

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Life Sciences & Biomedicine

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Powered Exoskeleton

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International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR)

Singapore, SINGAPORE

SEP 24-28, 2023

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February 20, 2024
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