Landing Area Prediction in Complex Terrains for Walking-assisted Lower-limb Exoskeleton Robot

摘要

With the expansion of application scenarios, the walking-assisted lower-limb exoskeleton robot urgently needs to improve its walking ability in complex terrains. However, due to the lack of environmental understanding ability and decision-making ability, the exoskeleton can not meet the need of people with lower-limb disability in complex terrains. To improve the walking abillity, this paper proposes a method of predicting the landing area in complex terrains for walking-assisted lower-limb exoskeleton robot. Multiple sensors were used to obtain the terrain information, step length, and stride length of human walking, and a multi-type input convolutional network was built to establish the mapping relationship to learn the decision-making mechanism of human standing in a complex environment. The result shows that the established network effectively predicts the landing area. Under the condition of full training, the predicted position deviation of the landing area is controlled within 6%, and the prediction rationality of the landing area can reach 90%.