TY - JOUR
T1 - Influence of a soft robotic suit on metabolic cost in long-distance level and inclined walking
AU - Jin, Shanhai
AU - Guo, Shijie
AU - Kazunobu, Hashimoto
AU - Xiong, Xiaogang
AU - Yamamoto, Motoji
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the following grants: Grant-in-Aid for the Adaptable & Seamless Technology Transfer program through Target driven R&D (Grant no. AS2415010K) from Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Science & Technology Development Foundation of Jilin Province (Grant no. 20180520019JH), Science & Technology Research Foundation of the Education Department of Jilin Province (Grant no. JJKH20180883KJ), and Shenzhen Peacock Technical Innovation Funding (Grant no. KQJSCX20170726103546683).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Shanhai Jin et al.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Metabolic cost during walking is positively linked to exercise intensity. For a walking assistive device, one of the major aims should be the maximization of wearers' metabolic benefits for different walking situations. Toward this goal, this paper experimentally evaluates the influence of an authors' soft robotic suit, which has been developed to assist hip flexion for energy-efficient walking of elderly persons in daily life activities, on metabolic cost reduction in the long-distance level and inclined walking. Experiment results show that, for a 79-year-old healthy male subject, the robotic suit significantly reduced metabolic cost in the condition of the robotic suit worn and powered on compared with the condition of worn but powered off.
AB - Metabolic cost during walking is positively linked to exercise intensity. For a walking assistive device, one of the major aims should be the maximization of wearers' metabolic benefits for different walking situations. Toward this goal, this paper experimentally evaluates the influence of an authors' soft robotic suit, which has been developed to assist hip flexion for energy-efficient walking of elderly persons in daily life activities, on metabolic cost reduction in the long-distance level and inclined walking. Experiment results show that, for a 79-year-old healthy male subject, the robotic suit significantly reduced metabolic cost in the condition of the robotic suit worn and powered on compared with the condition of worn but powered off.
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U2 - 10.1155/2018/9573951
DO - 10.1155/2018/9573951
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85059091096
SN - 1176-2322
VL - 2018
JO - Applied Bionics and Biomechanics
JF - Applied Bionics and Biomechanics
M1 - 9573951
ER -