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US 2022/0023131 A1Published application
Wearable active robot for body joints in series
AssigneeScuola Superiore Di Studi Universitari E Di Perfezionamento Sant'anna
InventorsAndrea BALDONI, Simona CREA, Nicola VITIELLO
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Abstract
The present concerns a wearable underactuated active robot with a couple of robotic joint adapted to correspond with to a couple of body joints in line on a limb of an user.
Claims13
An active robot wearable by a user comprising:
- actuation means defining a single primary motion output;
- a motion distribution element connected to said primary motion output to receive the motion generated by said actuation means in input and to distribute it in differential mode through two derivative motion outputs;
- two exoskeletal modules each connected to one of said two derivative motion outputs, arranged in line and adapted to each correspond to a body joint of said user where said body joint belongs to a pair of joints consecutively arranged on a limb.
A leg prosthesis wearable by a user comprising:
- actuation means defining a single primary motion output;
- a motion distribution element connected to said primary motion output to receive the motion generated by said actuation means in input and to distribute it in differential mode through two derivative motion outputs;
- two exoskeletal modules each connected to one of said two derivative motion outputs, arranged in line and respectively corresponding to a knee joint and an ankle joint of said user,
- braking means operatively associated with each of said derivative motion outputs, wherein said braking means acts on said derivative motion outputs to adjust the output power provided by each of them to the respective module;
- position detection means located downstream of said actuation means and of said motion distribution element and adapted to detect the position and/or actual torque associated with each of said modules.
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