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This paper proposes a functional electrical stimulation (FES)-involved control strategy for self-made exoskeleton lower limb rehabilitation robot for the training purpose of paraplegic patients caused by spinal cord injury (SCI) or stroke. Two muscles (Vastus Medialis and Riceps Femoris) are stimulated to produce active torque around knee joint which can be considered as a redundant actuator besides electrical motor. During the predefined trajectory tracking task, electrical motors compensate for the gravitational torque of the entire human-robot system, while the muscles provide torque calculated by a PD position/velocity controller based on the tracking error. The FES-induced torque control is accomplished with combination of feedforward and feedback controller, former of which is obtained by applying off-line trained neural networks to map the relationship between desired active torque and FES parameters. Simulation results obtained by using Simulink toolboxes in Matlab verify the feasibility of this control strategy.
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Chen, Y., Hu, J., Zhang, F., Hou, Z. (2012). Simulation Study of an FES-Involved Control Strategy for Lower Limb Rehabilitation Robot. In: Su, CY., Rakheja, S., Liu, H. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7507. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33515-0_9
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