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May 23-24, 2019 | Vienna, Austria
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
2
nd
International Conference on
Research & Reviews: Journal of Engineering and Technology | ISSN: 2319-9873 | Volume 8
Assistive exoskeletons for motion assistance: Mechanism design, motion detection
and interaction control
Shaoping Bai
Aalborg University, Denmark
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s the global ageing predictions become reality, assistive
exoskeletons are being increasingly considered as
future aids to help elderly persons staying active in their
daily living tasks and rehabilitation systems for effectively
restoring patient’s motor functions. The exoskeletons
are also considered as useful power assistance for labor
workers in the manual work to reduce muscle fatigue and
to prevent musculoskeletal injuries. This talk is focused
on the development of assistive exoskeletons and their
applications in the motion assistance. A brief overview of
exoskeletons with their classification and applications will
be presented. The design and development challenges will
be discussed, including mechanism design, compact and
compliant actuation, human motion intention detection and
exoskeleton interaction control. In the talk, research projects
on exoskeleton at Aalborg University will be presented,
together with progresses and results newly obtained.
Speaker Biography
Shaoping Bai is an Associate Professor at the department of Materials and
Production, Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark. His research interests
include assistive robots, parallel manipulators, walking robots, dynamics
and design. He is one of the founders of Centre for Robotics Research
(CRR), AAU. He was the coordinator of the CRR for the year 2010-2012. He
leads several national and international research projects in exoskeletons,
including EU AAL project AXO-SUIT and IFD Grand Solutions project
EXO-AIDER, among others. He is a recipient of IEEE CIS-RAM 2017 best
paper, IFToMM MEDER 2018 best application paper, and Grand Prize of
WearRAcon Innovation Challenges 2018. He is an Associate Editor of ASME
of Mechanisms and Robotics, an Associate Editor of IEEE Robotics and
Automation Letters, and a deputy chair of IFToMM Technical Committee
of Robotics and Mechatronics.
e:
shb@mp.aau.dkShaoping Bai
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