Modular Exo-Legs For Mobility Of Elderly Persons

• The paper presents details of the AAL Call 4 EXO-LEGS project aimed at developing and testing lower body assistive exoskeletons to help elderly persons perform daily living activities independently such as stable standing, sit-to-stand transfers, and straight walking. The key components needed have been realized using mobility requirements and design preferences provided by an end-user group comprising 117 members via 5 surveys. Modular human-centric concepts are followed for mechanical design, sensing, and actuation, system integration, etc., to realize a BASIC exoskeleton prototype able to provide up to 30% power to assist the human perform the intended motions. Two ethical approvals have been obtained to involve end-users in the research, development, and test phases of the project. To date, 5 test subjects have tested the exoskeleton prototype in walking and sit-to-stand test; summary results are presented in this paper

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Robotteknik och automation (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Robotics (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datorseende och robotik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Vision and Robotics (hsv//eng)

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Datalogi

Computer Science

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