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Assistive exoskeletons for motion assistance: Mechanism design, motion detection and interaction control


2nd International Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

May 23-24, 2019 | Vienna, Austria

Shaoping Bai

Aalborg University, Denmark

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Abstract

As 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.

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-mail: shb@mp.aau.dk