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The technical trend of the exoskeleton robot system for human power assistance

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The exoskeleton robot system is a brand new type of human-robot cooperation system. It fully combines human intelligence and robot power so that robot intelligence and human operator’s power are both enhanced. Therefore, it achieves a high-level performance that neither robots nor humans could achieve separately. This paper describes the basic exoskeleton concepts from biological systems to human-robot intelligent systems. It is followed by an overview of the development history of exoskeleton systems and their two main applications: human power assistance and human power augmentation. Besides the key technologies in exoskeleton systems, the research is presented from several viewpoints of the biomechanical design, system structure modeling, human-robot interaction, and control strategy.

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    Heedon Lee, Wansoo Kim & Changsoo Han

  2. Dept. of Mechanical System Engineering, Hansung University, 389, Samseon-dong 2-ga, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 136-792

    Jungsoo Han

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Lee, H., Kim, W., Han, J. et al. The technical trend of the exoskeleton robot system for human power assistance. Int. J. Precis. Eng. Manuf. 13, 1491–1497 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12541-012-0197-x

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