The Pneumatic Muscles Upper Extremity Exoskeleton Energizing Research

For a long time, due to congenital or acquired factors caused the limb functional damage or loss, has been an important issue facing human society. When people lose part or all of the ability to act, not only to the parties to bring about troubles in their lives, but also will bring a chain of social problems. So, how to make use of modern science and technology to help this population, restore or assist in its ability to act, and has become an important research topic in today.Intelligent exoskeleton system is one of the effective ways to solve this problem.Intelligent exoskeleton the system imitate biosphere the Arthropoda shell, through modern technology, man and machine systems associated with making the machine can act based on feedback from the human body, so as to achieve the purpose of the auxiliary body. The rise of the Industrial Revolution in the18th century and the mid-20th century the prosperity of the control theory, greatly promoted the progress of science and technology and the derived forms of intelligent control technology. Wherein the pneumatic muscle technology appears to the exoskeleton system design and manufacture a new feasibility road. Pneumatic muscles compared to traditional drives have several advantages such as light weight, limit control, arranged in any combination, ideal for the exoskeleton system. So the smart drive pneumatic muscles exoskeleton system to become a research focus.Intelligent exoskeleton system interaction study, in addition to the feedback control, man-machine integration, coordination, etc., its energizing effect is also an important part. Exoskeleton system in the test of the auxiliary of the human body, you need to test various parameters of the body’s own muscle movement. EMG test can effectively reflect the human body changes in the the EMG muscle before and after wearing the exoskeleton system feedback, even to intelligent systems to data in order to better design and optimize a given human assisted exoskeleton system.The study focused on the design after pneumatic muscles as the drive upper limb exoskeleton auxiliary equipment and its energizing effect by EMG test to verify this theory, the method and the correctness and feasibility of the technology, is also in-depth research and extension to provide scientific data to support.