Abstract
Human muscle fatigue is identified as one of the causes to musculuskeletal disorder (MSD). The objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of an exoskeleton in dealing with muscle fatigue in a virtual environment. The focus of this work is, for the exoskeleton to provide support as needed by human joint. A (Proportional, Integration and Derivative) controller is used for both human and exoskeleton. Simmechanics and Simulink are used to evaluate the performance of the exoskeleton. Experiments show that human is able to maintain doing the job by wearing the exoskeleton.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 11 Sept 2017 |
| Event | CLAWAR 2017: 20th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines - Duration: 9 Nov 2017 → … |
Conference
| Conference | CLAWAR 2017: 20th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines |
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| Period | 9/11/17 → … |
Keywords
- Predictive fatigue model; upper-limb exoskeleton; virtual environment.