The Bioinspired Exosuit utilizes pneumatically-actuated artificial muscle (“Hydro Muscles”) to provide assistive forces while walking. This project continues on a multi-year effort to utilize Hydro Muscles for this purpose. The exosuit uses neural network-based control, informed by a comprehensive suite of sensors that determines the state of the suit and pose of the user. Neural network-based control allows for the adaption to the user’s specific gait cycle and provides optimized support to decrease the energy consumed while walking.

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Creator

• Buterbaugh, Peter
• Shaver, William
• Guo, Yichen
• Feng, Haojun
• Durkin, Lily

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 65821
• E-project-042822-155932

Advisor

• Zhang, Ziming
• Popovic, Marko B.

Year

• 2022

Date created

• 2022-04-28

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Robotics Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright