CPS: TTP Option: Synergy: Human-Machine Interaction with Mobility Enhancing Soft Exosuits

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Stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability, with 80% of survivors having locomotor impairments. Individuals after stroke typically present with hemiparetic gait, characterized as slow, asymmetric, and inefficient. Our lab has been developing soft wearable cyber-physical sytems, called soft exosuits, that interface with paretic limb after stroke through soft and conformal textile-based structures to assist hemiparetic walking. Soft exosuits transmit mechanical power to human body joints via interaction between functional textiles worn on the body and Bowden cable retraction.

  • Boston University
  • Exoskeleton
  • Harvard University
  • Rehabilitation Robotics
  • Soft exosuit
  • wearable robotics
  • Wyss Institute For Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University
  • 1446464
  • CPS Domains
  • Medical Devices
  • Real-Time Coordination
  • Health Care
  • Robotics
  • Foundations
  • CPS-PI Meeting 2017
  • 2017
  • Poster
  • Academia
  • Posters (Sessions 8 & 13)
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