Joelle
Yoon
138 Program for Research in Science and Engineering Increasing Usability of Ankle Exoskeletons Through a Shoe-binding Design
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Authors:
Joelle Yoon, Jae-Ryeong Choi, Patrick Slade
Date Created:
2025-01-01
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Not specified
About Paper:
Ankle exoskeletons are proven to effectively increase mobility user’s shoe. Side-adjustable cross straps were used to further through lowering metabolic costs for the user. While several past bind the device to the user’s foot, resulting in a lightweight, non- studies have examined the ability of ankle exoskeletons to provide invasive anchoring system for the device. Preliminary results assistanceduringwalking, fewhavefocusedonusabilityindesign. suggest that the ankle exoskeleton is able to provide a sufficient Many previous exoskeleton designs have relied on modifying the amount of plantar flexion torque, although more data will need user’s shoe to anchor the ankle exoskeleton, increasing the weight to be collected to fully validate the design. Motion capture data and cost and lowering the usability of the device. Thus, our will also be collected to compare ankle exoskeleton deformation objective was to design an ankle exoskeleton interface that could under different amounts of torque to a fully rigid design previously easily be attached to the wearer’s shoe without requiring any shoe developed in the lab. After verifying the performance of the modifications. We propose a novel ankle exoskeleton that utilizes device, we will run human experiments to measure changes in a side-adjustable shoe-binding design to improve accessibility for muscleactivationandmetabolicrateduringassistedandunassisted a larger population. Inspired by the plantar fascia, we looped walking on level surfaces. Overall, our research aims to offer a a string from the back of the foot to the front, connecting it to new perspective in increasing the usability of ankle exoskeletons a boa tightening mechanism to adapt the string length to each for everyday use.
Abstract:
Ankle exoskeletons are proven to effectively increase mobility user’s shoe. Side-adjustable cross straps were used to further through lowering metabolic costs for the user. While several past bind the device to the user’s foot, resulting in a lightweight, non- studies have examined the ability of ankle exoskeletons to provide invasive anchoring system for the device. Preliminary results assistanceduringwalking, fewhavefocusedonusabilityindesign. suggest that the ankle exoskeleton is able to provide a sufficient Many previous exoskeleton designs have relied on modifying the amount of plantar flexion torque, although more data will need user’s shoe to anchor the ankle exoskeleton, increasing the weight to be collected to fully validate the design. Motion capture data and cost and lowering the usability of the device. Thus, our will also be collected to compare ankle exoskeleton deformation objective was to design an ankle exoskeleton interface that could under different amounts of torque to a fully rigid design previously easily be attached to the wearer’s shoe without requiring any shoe developed in the lab. After verifying the performance of the modifications. We propose a novel ankle exoskeleton that utilizes device, we will run human experiments to measure changes in a side-adjustable shoe-binding design to improve accessibility for muscleactivationandmetabolicrateduringassistedandunassisted a larger population. Inspired by the plantar fascia, we looped walking on level surfaces. Overall, our research aims to offer a a string from the back of the foot to the front, connecting it to new perspective in increasing the usability of ankle exoskeletons a boa tightening mechanism to adapt the string length to each for everyday use.
Source:
Harvard / Harvard College | Cabot House | Integrative Biology | 2027 / 2025
Topics:
exoskeleton, ankle, shoe, design, user, device, increasing, usability, engineering, side, lowering, cost
