Environmental Imaging and Control for Exoskeletons to Improve Safety and Mobility

外骨骼环境成像和控制可提高安全性和机动性

• 批准号: 9474743
• 负责人: John Paul Condon
• 金额: $ 56.24万
• 依托单位: INNOVATIVE DESIGN LABS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-30 至 2020-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9474743
• 关键词: Address; Adoption; Algorithm Design; Algorithms; American; Benchmarking; Bionics; Caregivers; Chicago; Clinical; Collaborations; Communities; Community Participation; Computational algorithm; Computer Vision Systems; Crutches; Custom; Dependence; Devices; Electrical Engineering; Emotional; Environment; Evaluation; Exercise; Eye; Family; Feedback; Freedom; Friends; Gait; Goals; Health; Height; Home environment; Hospitals; Human; Image; Impairment; Individual; Industry; Institutes; Laboratories; Length; Location; Medical; Methods; Motion; Patients; Performance; Phase; Population; Process; Production; Quality of life; Ramp; Rehabilitation Centers; Rehabilitation Outcome; Rehabilitation therapy; Research; Safety; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Social isolation; Societies; Software Engineering; System; Technology; Testing; Uncertainty; Vision; Walking; Wheelchairs; Work; commercialization; design; exoskeleton; experience; human study; image processing; improved; improved mobility; innovation; insight; member; product development; prototype; rehabilitation technology; robot exoskeleton; usability

Innovative Design Labs (IDL) proposes to create a system to improve the mobility and control of exoskeletons. Recent research has found that 3.86 million Americans require wheelchairs and the number has been increasing annually by an average annual rate of 5.9% per year. While wheelchairs provide freedom, allowing users to be independent as well as reducing dependence upon others, wheelchair use is not physically or emotionally equivalent to walking and is often thought to limit community participation and thus exacerbate social isolation. Robotic exoskeletons/bionic suits have the potential to enable these individuals to stand up and walk, thus providing a way to more fully reintegrate these individuals into society. Our proposal seeks to address one of the hurdles limiting the widespread adoption of exoskeletons in the home and community—the inability of the user to dynamically control gait parameters. This concept has the potential to significantly change the way exoskeletons work and facilitate their adoption into the market. Hypothesis: We hypothesize that the proposed solution will provide users a practical way to adjust their suit’s gait to precisely achieve their navigational goals. Specific Aims: Phase I: 1) Build a prototype and Perform Preliminary Laboratory Testing; 2) Develop and Benchmark Algorithms; and 3) Perform Pilot Human Study of Prototype with Exoskeleton Subjects. Phase II: 1) Develop Customized, Production-Ready Hardware and Firmware 2) Integrate with Exoskeleton Control System; and 3) Perform an evaluation of the system through human study testing.

创新设计实验室（IDL）提出创建一个系统来提高外骨骼的移动性和控制能力。 最近的研究发现，386万美国人需要轮椅， 年均增长5.9%。虽然轮椅提供了自由， 为了使使用者能够独立并减少对他人的依赖，轮椅的使用不是身体上的， 在情感上等同于步行，通常被认为会限制社区参与，从而加剧 社会孤立机器人外骨骼/仿生服有可能使这些人站起来 并步行，从而为这些人更充分地重新融入社会提供了一种途径。我们的建议旨在 解决了限制在家庭和社区中广泛采用外骨骼的障碍之一- 用户不能动态控制步态参数。这一概念有可能大大 改变外骨骼的工作方式，并促进其进入市场。假设：我们假设 所提出的解决方案将为用户提供一种实用的方法来调整他们的西装的步态，以精确地实现他们的 导航目标具体目标：第一阶段：1）建立一个原型，并进行初步的实验室测试; 2)开发和基准算法;以及3）执行具有外骨骼的原型的飞行员人体研究 科目第二阶段：1）开发定制的生产就绪硬件和固件2）与 外骨骼控制系统;以及3）通过人体研究测试对系统进行评估。