ArticleFrontiers in robotics and AI2022
Assisting Forearm Function in Children With Movement Disorders
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Wearable robots are envisioned to amplify the independence of people with movement impairments by providing daily physical assistance. For portable, comfortable, and safe devices, soft pneumatic-based robots are emerging as a potential solution. However, due to the inherent complexities, including compliance and nonlinear mechanical behavior, feedback control for facilitating human-robot interaction remains a challenge. Herein, we present the design, fabrication, and control architecture of a soft wearable robot that assists in supination and pronation of the forearm. The soft wearable robot integrates an antagonistic pair of pneumatic-based helical actuators to provide active pronation and supination torques. Our main contribution is a bio-inspired equilibrium-point control scheme for integrating proprioceptive feedback and exteroceptive input (e.g., the user's muscle activation signals) directly with the on/off valve behavior of the soft pneumatic actuators. The proposed human-robot controller is directly inspired by the equilibrium-point hypothesis of motor control, which suggests that voluntary movements arise through shifts in the equilibrium state of the antagonistic muscle pair spanning a joint. We hypothesized that the proposed method would reduce the required effort during dynamic manipulation without affecting the error. In order to evaluate our proposed method, we recruited seven pediatric participants with movement disorders to perform two dynamic interaction tasks with a haptic manipulandum. Each task required the participant to track a sinusoidal trajectory while the haptic manipulandum behaved as a Spring-Dominate system or Inertia-Dominate system. Our results reveal that the soft wearable robot, when active, reduced user effort on average by 14%. This work demonstrates the practical implementation of an equilibrium-point volitional controller for wearable robots and provides a foundational path toward versatile, low-cost, and soft wearable robots.
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