Papers
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Total Citations
552
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About
Bokman Lim is a robotics researcher whose work spans wearable assistive robotics, exoskeleton control systems, humanoid locomotion, and biomechanically inspired robot design. He is best known for pioneering the delayed output feedback control strategy for robotic hip exoskeletons — a elegantly simple yet powerful approach that requires no separate motion estimators, enabling natural gait assistance without complex sensing infrastructure. This foundational work, cited over 114 times, underpins the EX1 wearable hip-assistive robot, which has demonstrated measurable improvements in walking efficiency and physical function in older adults across both clinical and community settings. Lim's earlier contributions include a movement primitives framework combining principal component analysis and optimization for generating human-like robot motion (81 citations), and influential investigations into biarticular robotic leg mechanisms for explosive jumping movements. His adaptive oscillator-based exoskeleton control and event-driven gait assistance methods further demonstrate his ability to translate biological locomotion principles into practical engineering solutions. Across his career, Lim has consistently bridged fundamental robotics research and real-world rehabilitation applications, with his cumulative work helping establish wearable robotics as a credible intervention for age-related mobility decline and motor impairment.
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- 5A Biarticulated Robotic Leg for Jumping Movements: Theory and Experiments37 citations · 2008
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- 7Assistance strategy for stair ascent with a robotic hip exoskeleton33 citations · 2016
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- 10Balancing control of a biped robot16 citations · 2012