The working principle of the knee assistive exoskeleton FKAE. (IMAGE)

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The working principle of the knee assistive exoskeleton FKAE.

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 (A) The prototype of the single-source dual-drive flexible knee assistive exoskeleton. (B) Diagram of the actuator structure and its working principles. The yellow arrow indicates that the moving mesh gear is engaged with the left-side drive gear; the blue arrow indicates that the moving mesh gear is engaged with the right-side drive gear. (C) Disc-type series elastomers based on linear springs. (D) Schematic diagram of the correspondence between the IMU layout and knee angle solution. DCCs, drive control components.

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Shisheng Zhang, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology.

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