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Principles of Motor Adaptation when Walking with a Powered Exoskeleton

Дата: Декабрь 31st, 2009 Автор:
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  • Тип контента: Научная статья
  • Номер документа: 7338
  • Название документа: Principles of Motor Adaptation when Walking with a Powered Exoskeleton
  • Номер (DOI, IBSN, Патент): Не заполнено
  • Изобретатель/автор: Pei-Chun Kao
  • Правопреемник/учебное заведение: The University of Michigan
  • Дата публикации документа: 2009-12-31
  • Страна опубликовавшая документ: США
  • Язык документа: Английский
  • Наименование изделия: Не заполнено
  • Источник: Не заполнено
  • Вложения: Да
  • Аналитик: Глаголева Елена

Robotic exoskeletons are currently developed to augment human motor performance or assist in the gait rehabilitation of individuals with neurological injuries. While the robo-tic technology is rapidly advancing, there is a large gap in our understanding of how humans respond to exoskeleton assistance during locomotion. To build successful robotic devices, it is critical to under-stand the principles governing mechanical human-machine interaction. In this dissertation, I used lightweight ankle exoskeletons powered by artificial pneumatic muscles to provide mechanical assistance to neurologically intact human subjects. The exoskeletons allowed me to investigate some general principles of motor adaptation in human walking. In the first experiment, an exoskeleton provided subjects with increased dorsiflexor torque. The results demonstrated that there are different adaptation responses for the type bursts of tibialis anterior recruitment during walking. In the second experiment, an exoskeleton provided plantar flexor torque with two artificial pneumatic muscles, increasing the exoskeleton mechani-cal output compared to past studies. With this assistance, subjects rapidly decreased soleus recruitment to walk with a total ankle moment pattern similar to unassisted gait. However, subjects adapted at a slower rate for the stronger exoskeleton. In the third experiment, I quantified soleus monosynaptic reflex responses to determine if reflex inhibition is one of the mechanisms for reducing soleus recruitment during robotic-assisted walking. Subjects demonstrated similar soleus H-reflex amplitudes corresponding to background muscle activation during powered versus unpowered walking. This indicates the reflex gain is not modified during short-term adaptation to the robotic exoskeleton. In the final experiment, I used the exoskeleton as a tool to quantify the mechanical output of plantar flexor reflex responses during perturbed gait. I introduced a perturbation by turning off the robotic assistance unexpectedly in midstance. During the perturbed steps, subjects greatly increased muscle activation to maintain total ankle moment patterns similar to unperturbed steps. Overall these studies demonstrated that the nervous system prioritizes a given ankle joint moment pattern during human walking, both with robotic assistance and when encountering gait perturbations. The combined results of these experiments will help guide the design of future robotic devices and could lead to better strategies for robotic-assisted gait rehabili-tation.

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