Preliminary Validation of the Unilateral AGoRA Lower Limb Exoskeleton during Gait Assistance in Treadmill and Overground

DANIEL GOMEZ-VARGAS; SOPHIA OTALORA; FELIPE BALLEN-MORENO; FLAVIO ROBERTI; RICARDO CARELLI; MARCELA MUNERA; CARLOS CIFUENTES

San Juan

Congreso; XXIII CONGRESO ARGENTINO DE BIOINGENIERÍA; 2022

Universidad Nacional de San Juan

Several actuation types and control strategies have been applied in exoskeletons to improve the performance and interaction during assistive applications. This work presents the preliminary validation of the AGoRA exoskeleton during gait on a treadmill and overground with two healthy subjects under a unilateral configuration. Results exhibited changes in the gait cycle duration when users wore the device, increasing of range of motion of the back and decreasing muscular activity for the overground condition. Future works should be focused on measuring the user?s kinematics and a protocol with a further number of participants.