Title :
Exoskeletons for human power augmentation
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
The first load-bearing and energetically autonomous exoskeleton, called the Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton (BLEEX) walks at the average speed of two miles per hour while carrying 75 pounds of load. The project, funded in 2000 by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) tackled four fundamental technologies: the exoskeleton architectural design, a control algorithm, a body LAN to host the control algorithm, and an on-board power unit to power the actuators, sensors and the computers. This article gives an overview of the BLEEX project.
Keywords :
legged locomotion; man-machine systems; Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton project; autonomous exoskeleton; exoskeleton architectural design; human power augmentation; human-machine systems; legged locomotion; onboard power unit; wearable robotics; Actuators; Exoskeletons; Extremities; Humans; Leg; Legged locomotion; Mechanical engineering; Power system reliability; Robots; Robustness; BLEEX; exoskeleton; human-machine systems; legged locomotion; wearable robotics;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2005. (IROS 2005). 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8912-3
DOI :
10.1109/IROS.2005.1545451
