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Towards Standard Specifications for Back-Support Exoskeletons

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Wearable Robotics: Challenges and Trends (WeRob 2018)

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Abstract

Back-support exoskeletons have shown the potential to improve workplace ergonomics by reducing the risk of low-back injury. To support the rapidly expanding landscape and to correspondingly promote correct adoption, standard specifications for back-support exoskeletons are desirable. We propose a list of properties and discuss their relevance to industrial applications.

This work has been funded by the Italian Workers’ Compensation Authority (INAIL).

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  1. Department of Advanced Robotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy

    Stefano Toxiri, Matteo Sposito, Maria Lazzaroni, Lorenza Mancini, Darwin G. Caldwell & Jesús Ortiz

  2. Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Matteo Sposito & Maria Lazzaroni

  3. Centro Ricerche Fiat, Orbassano, Italy

    Massimo Di Pardo

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  1. Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, The BioRobotics Institute, Pisa, Italy

    Maria Chiara Carrozza

  2. Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Translational Neural Engineering Area, The BioRobotics Institute, Pisa, Italy

    Silvestro Micera

  3. Spanish National Research Council, Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

    José L. Pons

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Toxiri, S. et al. (2019). Towards Standard Specifications for Back-Support Exoskeletons. In: Carrozza, M., Micera, S., Pons, J. (eds) Wearable Robotics: Challenges and Trends. WeRob 2018. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01887-0_42

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