Development of Power Assistance Exoskeleton Suit(NAEIES)

Abstract

Exoskeleton Suit (NAEIES) is a kind of human-machine robot that combines the human's intelligence with the powerful energy of mechanism. It can help people to carry heavy load, walking on kinds of terrains. A prototype of NAEIES is proposed in this paper. The operator controls NAEIES. When the operator wants to walk, he swings his arm, and then the motion of the arm is measured by the potentiometer instrumented on the arm. The microcontroller controls the knee joint to rotate using the signal gets from the potentiometer. A mechanism composed of gas spring makes the hip joint rotate as the knee joint move, and as a result the NAEIES matching the kinematics of the human as well as carrying the load.