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- Title
Adaptive Admittance Control Scheme with Virtual Reality Interaction for Robot-Assisted Lower Limb Strength Training.
- Authors
Lin, Musong; Wang, Hongbo; Niu, Jianye; Tian, Yu; Wang, Xincheng; Liu, Guowei; Sun, Li
- Abstract
Muscle weakness is the primary impairment causing mobility difficulty among stroke survivors. Millions of people are unable to live normally because of mobility difficulty every year. Strength training is an effective method to improve lower extremity ability but is limited by the shortage of medical staff. Thus, this paper proposes a robot-assisted active training (RAAT) by an adaptive admittance control scheme with virtual reality interaction (AACVRI). AACVRI consists of a stiffness variable admittance controller, an adaptive controller, and virtual reality (VR) interactions. In order to provide human-robot reality interactions corresponding to virtual scenes, an admittance control law with variable stiffness term was developed to define the mechanics property of the end effector. The adaptive controller improves tracking performances by compensating interaction forces and dynamics model deviations. A virtual training environment including action following, event feedback, and competition mechanism is utilized for improving boring training experience and engaging users to maintain active state in cycling training. To verify controller performances and the feasibility of RAAT, experiments were conducted with eight subjects. Admittance control provides desired variable interactions along the trajectory. The robot responds to different virtual events by changing admittance parameters according to trigger feedbacks. Adaptive control ensures tracking errors at a low level. Subjects were maintained in active state during this strength training. Their physiological signals significantly increased, and interaction forces were at a high level. RAAT is a feasible approach for lower limb strength training, and users can independently complete high-quality active strength training under RAAT.
- Subjects
ADAPTIVE control systems; VIRTUAL reality; HUMAN-robot interaction; MEDICAL personnel; STRENGTH training; STROKE patients; MUSCLE weakness
- Publication
Machines, 2021, Vol 9, Issue 11, p301
- ISSN
2075-1702
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/machines9110301