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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Human-in-the-Loop Optimization of Knee Exoskeleton Assistance for Minimizing User's Metabolic and Muscular Effort.

Sara Monteiro, Joana Figueiredo, Pedro Fonseca, J Paulo Vilas-Boas, Cristina P Santos

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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5 authors.

Sara MonteiroCenter for MicroElectroMechanical Systems (CMEMS), University of Minho, 4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal.
Joana FigueiredoCenter for MicroElectroMechanical Systems (CMEMS), University of Minho, 4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-9547-3051
Pedro FonsecaPorto Biomechanics Laboratory (LABIOMEP), University of Porto, 4200-450 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-4885-4924
J Paulo Vilas-BoasPorto Biomechanics Laboratory (LABIOMEP), University of Porto, 4200-450 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-4109-2939
Cristina P SantosCenter for MicroElectroMechanical Systems (CMEMS), University of Minho, 4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-0023-7203

Funding

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia 2020.03393.CEECIND
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lower limb exoskeletons have the potential to mitigate work-related musculoskeletal disorders; however, they often lack user-oriented control strategies. Human-in-the-loop (HITL) controls adapt an exoskeleton's assistance in real time, to optimize the user-exoskeleton interaction. This study presents a HITL control for a knee exoskeleton using a CMA-ES algorithm to minimize the users' physical effort, a parameter innovatively evaluated using the interaction torque with the exoskeleton (a muscular effort indicator) and metabolic cost. This work innovates by estimating the user's metabolic cost within the HITL control through a machine-learning model. The regression model estimated the metabolic cost, in real time, with a root mean squared error of 0.66 W/kg and mean absolute percentage error of 26% (

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AlgorithmsExoskeleton DeviceTorqueAdultBiomechanical PhenomenaEnergy MetabolismHumansKneeKnee JointMachine LearningMaleMuscle, SkeletalWalkingexoskeletonshuman-in-the-loop controlmetabolic cost estimationwork-related musculoskeletal disorders

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PMID38894101
PMCPMC11174841

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