The study on human walking gait analysis system for the design of walking power-assisted robot

Abstract

Walking power-assisted robot is a wearable exoskeleton leg for augmentation of the human walking ability. It is anthropomorphic, parallels to the human lower limbs and interfaces to the human via shoulder straps, waist belt, thigh cuffs, and a shoe connection such that the geometry of the human and the machine approximately match one another. It is important and necessary for analyzing the human walking gait in order to reality the power-assisted robot walking coincident with the operator, and human walking gait data will provide some useful bases for the design of power-assisted robot. So in this paper we focus on introducing the walking gait analysis system which we have developed.