Study on a Two-Staged Control of a Lower-Limb Exoskeleton Performing Standing-Up Motion from a Chair

The paper is concerned with control over a lower-limb exoskeleton device when it performs a sit-to-stand motion from a chair. A mathematical model describing full dynamics of the device is derived, and the strategies to facilitate the desired motion are outlined. A control system based on a modified Jacobian transpose is proposed, and its performance is evaluated in a series of numerical experiments. The simulations proved that the proposed control method can be successfully used to provide stable sit-to-stand motion from a chair.

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