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Human-in-the-Loop Control of Soft Exosuits Using Impedance Learning on Different Terrains

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Many previous works of soft wearable exoskeletons (exosuit) target at improving the human locomotion assistance, without considering the impedance adaption to interact with the unpredictable dynamics and external environment, preferably… Click to show full abstract

Many previous works of soft wearable exoskeletons (exosuit) target at improving the human locomotion assistance, without considering the impedance adaption to interact with the unpredictable dynamics and external environment, preferably outside the laboratory environments. This article proposes a novel hierarchical human-in-the-loop paradigm that aims to produce suitable assistance powers for cable-driven lower limb exosuits to aid the ankle joint in pushing off the ground. It includes two primary loop layers: impedance learning in the external loop and human-in-the-loop adaptive management in the inner loop. Considering unknown terrains, its impedance model can be transferred to a quadratic programming problem with specified constraints, which a designed primal-dual optimization prototype then solves. Then, the presented impedance learning strategy is introduced to regulate the impedance model with the adaptive assistant powers for humans on different terrains. An adaptive controller is designed in the inner loop to balance the nonlinearities and compliance existing in the human-exosuit coexistence, while the robust mechanism compensates for disturbances to facilitate trajectory management without employing the general regressor. The advantage of the proposed technique over conventional solutions with fixed impedance parameters is that it can improve human walking performance over different terrains. Experiments demonstrate the significance of the approach.

Keywords: loop control; human loop; impedance learning; impedance; different terrains

Journal Title: IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Year Published: 2022

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