The control of an upper extremity exoskeleton for stroke rehabilitation by means of a hybrid active force control

Zahari Taha, Anwar P.P. Abdul Majeed, Muhammad Amirul Abdullah, Kamil Zakwan Mohd Azmi, Muhammad Aizzat Bin Zakaria*, Ahmad Shahrizan Abd Ghani, Mohd Hasnun Arif Hassan, Mohd Azraai Mohd Razman

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Abstract

This paper evaluates the efficacy of a hybrid active force control in performing a joint based trajectory tracking of an upper limb exoskeleton in rehabilitating the elbow joint. The plant of the exoskeleton system is obtained via system identification method whilst the PD gains were tuned heuristically. The estimated inertial parameter that enables the AFC disturbance rejection effect is attained by means of a non-nature based metaheuristic optimisation technique known as simulated Kalman filter (SKF). It was demonstrated that the proposed PDAFC scheme outperformed the classical PD algorithm in tracking the prescribed trajectory in the presence of disturbance attributed by the limb weight.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRobot Intelligence Technology and Applications 5 - Results from the 5th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications
EditorsHyun Myung, Weiliang Xu, Jin-Woo Jung, Han-Lim Choi, Jong-Hwan Kim, Junmo Kim, Eric T Matson
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages361-370
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783319784519
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event5th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications, RiTA 2017 - Daejeon, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 13 Dec 201715 Dec 2017

Publication series

NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume751
ISSN (Print)2194-5357

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications, RiTA 2017
Country/TerritoryKorea, Republic of
CityDaejeon
Period13/12/1715/12/17

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