TWIICE — A lightweight lower-limb exoskeleton for complete paraplegics

This paper introduces TWIICE, a lower-limb exoskeleton that enables people suffering from complete paraplegia to stand up and walk again. TWIICE provides complete mobilization of the lower-limbs, which is a first step toward enabling the user to regain independence in activities of the daily living. The tasks it can perform include level and inclined walking (up to 20° slope), stairs ascent and descent, sitting on a seat, and standing up. Participation in the world's first Cybathlon (Zurich, 2016) demonstrated good performance at these demanding tasks. In this paper, we describe the implementation details of the device and comment on preliminary results from a single user case study.

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