A Wearable Soft Knee Exoskeleton Using Vacuum-Actuated Rotary Actuator

This study introduces a wearable soft knee exoskeleton that aids active knee motions during walking. It is mainly driven by vacuum-actuated rotary actuators. In this paper, the overall design of the exoskeleton is introduced. Moreover, the design of the vacuum-actuated rotary actuator is introduced,...

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Main Authors: Liancun Zhang, Qiang Huang, Kangjian Cai, Zhiheng Wang, Wenkang Wang, Juan Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9049410/