A Curved Compliant Differential Mechanism with Neutral Stability: For the use in Exoskeleton Design

People in healthcare, warehousing, and the agriculture sector all have one thing in common. They require labour which can be demanding on the human body, this could lead to problems in the long term. A way to alleviate these problems is to use a passive exoskeleton. While passive exoskeletons can have a variety of different use cases and types...

Compliant curved beam transmission systems

This report proposes a concept for an I-profile curved beam compliant transmission system. The application of this system can be as a hip connection within a passive exoskeleton in which it transfers the walking motion from one leg to another. To obtain the desired behavior the torsion stiffness is reduced and the amount of work needed to move...

Ergonomic Exoskeleton Synthesis: Application to a Wearable Passive Exoskeleton for the Shoulder

The human machine-interface is more important than ever in the field of exoskeletons. Current design approaches lack a way of systematically designing the ergonomics of exoskeletons. Methods with a more pro active approach to ergonomics have to be developed. This thesis extends existing methods by which self aligning mechanisms are created with...