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ABSTRACT
The assisted lower extremity exoskeleton is a humanoid robot that can be worn in
healthy people and has the ability to assist the body's weight-bearing, which can improve
the body's weight-bearing capacity and increase the duration of continuous exercise. The
knee joint is the most complicated joint of the human body, and the knee joint mechanism is
also an important component of the lower extremity exoskeleton. The form of movement of
the human knee joint is very complicated. The instantaneous movement of the thighs and
calves is not fixed. However, the existing knee joint mechanisms of the lower extremity
exoskeleton are mostly reduced to a rotating pair, resulting in poor coordination between
the exoskeleton and the human knee . Therefore, this paper designs a variable axis knee
joint mechanism based on an undriven lower extremity exoskeleton to achieve the variable
axis function of the exoskeleton knee joint and improve human-machine coordination.
Firstly, by analyzing the movement characteristics of the lower limbs and knee joints
of the human body, the study of the exoskeleton and knee joint mechanism is mainly based
on the sagittal plane. Through the analysis of the movement characteristics of the knee joint,
the configuration of the variable-axis knee joint was determined, and the overall
configuration was determined by combining the original structure of the exoskeleton. The
initial verification of the knee joint by the calculation of the degree of freedom of the
unilateral exoskeleton and the graphical method ensure the correctness of the configuration.
Secondly, the kinematics modeling of the lower extremity exoskeleton with the
variable axis knee joint was carried out. The instantaneous trajectory equation of the
variable axis knee joint in the absolute coordinate system and the local coordinate system
was calculated, and the coordinates were transformed into the coordinate system, It laid the
foundation for pole length optimization. The least-squares fitting of the theoretical
trajectory coordinates of the instantaneous center of the knee of the human body is
performed, and the fitted trajectory curve of the instantaneous center of the knee joint is
obtained, which can provide a reference for the design of knee joint mechanism and
prosthetic limb.
Then, the degree of coincidence between the knee joint mechanism and the fitting
trajectory of the human knee joint is the objective function. The length of each rod and