Pilot comparison of customized and generalized hip-knee-ankle exoskeleton torque profiles

Gwendolyn M. Bryan,Patrick W. Franks,Seungmoon Song,Steven H. Collins,Gwendolyn M. Bryan,Patrick W. Franks,Seungmoon Song,Steven H. Collins

Optimized assistance patterns have produced the greatest exoskeleton benefits to energy expenditure of any strategy to date. This strategy may be effective due to the customization of the applied torque profiles to the user as well as the locomotion condition; however, it is currently unclear how sensitive participants are to their unique torque profile. To investigate, we applied previously optim...