Background: robotic exoskeletons have the potential to provide assistance to a user to increase productivity, endurance and decrease injury risk. However large power requirements necessitate heavy and stiff devices.
Aim: to develop a soft lightweight regenerative energy knee exoskeleton that can harvest energy from various stages of a gait cycle and inject this when needed.
Objectives:
1. Develop soft robotic knee exoskeleton with “programmable synergies”
2. Analyse gait cycle to determine when energy can be harvested
3. Develop control system for regenerative energy source
4. Validate system in experiments
Need at least one Mechatronics student
Undergraduate
None
Lab allocations have not been finalised