Development and Evaluation of a Wearable Lower Limb Rehabilitation Robot

This paper introduces a rigid-flexible coupling wearable exoskeleton robot for lower limb, which is designed in light of gait biomechanics and beneficial for low limb movement disorders by implementing gait training. The rationality of the proposed mechanism is shown with the implementation of the dynamic simulation through MSC ADAMS. For the purposes of lightweight, the exoskeleton mechanism is optimized through finite element analysis. It can be concluded from performance evaluation experiment, the mechanism has certain advantages over existing exoskeleton robots, namely, comfortable, lightweight, low cost, which can be utilized for rehabilitation training in medical institutions or as a daily-walking ancillary equipment for patients.

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This paper introduces a wearable exoskeleton robot with a rigid-flexible coupling mechanism for lower limb rehabilitation. It utilizes gait training to help with lower limb movement disorders. Through dynamic simulation and finite element analysis, the mechanism is optimized for lightweight and cost efficiency. The evaluation experiment shows that the robot has advantages in terms of comfort, lightweight, and low cost compared to existing exoskeleton robots, making it suitable for rehabilitation training or as an ancillary walking device for patients.