New Trends in Exoskeleton Robot
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Robotics and Automation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2025 | Viewed by 970
Special Issue Editors
Interests: exoskeleton robot power mechanism; human motion science; human motion intention recognition
Interests: rehabilitation medicine engineering; biomechanics
Interests: drones; robots; swarm drones; swarm robotics; IoT; smart sensors; mechatronics
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Dear Colleagues,
The exoskeleton robot, designed to enhance human walking and working capabilities, has been widely researched in the industrial, clinical, and military fields. There are many kinds of exoskeleton robots such as rigid- and soft-exoskeleton robots, both of which are designed to reduce the subjects’ working loads or metabolic energy. Mechanical engineering, control engineering and human factor engineering are involved in exoskeleton design. The mechanical design should achieve the load wearing function and guarantee flexibility in human movement. The control strategy should allow for human–robot coordinate movement, which involves human movement intention recognition and exoskeleton control methods. Human movement intention recognition involves motion pattern recognition and gait phase recognition. Many methods have been developed to recognize human motion patterns, especially those based on machine learning such as LSTM, CNN and so on. However, most of the methods are developed offline and have not been established in the exoskeleton-embedded system. Online human movement recognition is more important during control. Furthermore, the control effect on the embedded system should also be determined. The evaluation of exoskeleton effects on humans is also important during control strategy optimization. The heart rate (HR), metabolic rate and muscle activation of humans, as well as the interactive forces between human and exoskeleton, are used as the evaluation factors. However, the relationship between these factors and human subjective feeling has not been studied; thus, it should be researched in the future.
Dr. Yali Liu
Dr. Xinyu Guan
Prof. Dr. Subhas Mukhopadhyay
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mechanical design of exoskeleton
- human motion pattern recognition
- gait phase recognition
- human–robot coordinate control
- effect evaluation of exoskeleton
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