Exoskeletons with personalize-your-own settings
March 30, 2022
To transform human mobility, exoskeletons need to interact seamlessly with their user, providing the right level of assistance at the right time to cooperate with our muscles as we move.
To help achieve this, University of Michigan researchers gave users direct control to customize the behavior of an ankle exoskeleton.
Not only was the process faster than the conventional approach, in which an expert would decide the settings, but it may have incorporated preferences an expert would have missed. For instance, user height and weight, which are commonly used metrics for tuning exoskeletons and robotic prostheses, had no effect on preferred settings.
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