SWAG: SOFT WEARABLE ASSISTIVE GARMENTS FOR HUMAN EMPOWERMENT

SWAG：用于人类赋权的软质可穿戴辅助服装

• 批准号: 10087684
• 金额: $ 48.52万
• 依托单位: BRUNEL UNIVERSITY LONDON
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: EU-Funded
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10087684
• 关键词: SWAG; SOFT; WEARABLE; ASSISTIVE; GARMENTS

Soft robotics has become one of the fastest growing fields over the last decade, and the development of technologies related to the associated modelling, sensing, actuation and control challenges has flourished as part of the field’s impetus. Soft robots have been demonstrated in diverse applications such as wearable devices, mobile or locomotive robots, as well as soft manipulators. Soft lower extremity exoskeletons (“soft wearable robotics" (SWRs)) are one of the most challenging research topics, and require multidisciplinary approaches involving diverse fields such as neuroscience, biomechanics, robot control, ergonomics and other fields. SWAG aims to explore a fundamentally new approach to engineering soft structures that omit fully rigid materials for inflatable ones made from highstrength fabrics and films when manufacturing human-assistive exoskeletal devices that target strain-prone segments of the human body (i.e. lower body and core). Such soft wearable adaptive garments with actuation capabilities offer higher variable stiffness and force-toweight ratios compared to other existing methods, and simultaneously entirely conform to each joint’s intricate kinematics. Because of this, new design approaches can be used as building blocks to realise complete assistance for multi-degree-of-freedom joints, such as the ankle or hip, by adapting flexible and conforming motions achieved by continuum robot designs. SWAG’s advances will be demonstrated in 4 different application scenarios. The project brings together 13 partners from 5 EU countries and the UK. The partners consist of an interdisciplinary combination of leading academics with very strong track records in their respective fields. They are supported by RTOs with demonstrated capabilities of developing and validating application-driven solutions, as well as two commercial partners aiming to lead the exploitation of SWAG’s outcomes.

软机器人技术已成为过去十年中增长最快的技术之一，作为该领域推动力的一部分，与相关领域的建模、传感、驱动和控制挑战相关的技术的发展已经蓬勃发展，并已在多种应用中得到证明。可穿戴设备、移动或机车机器人以及软下肢外骨骼（“软可穿戴机器人”（SWR））是最具挑战性的研究之一。 SWAG 旨在探索一种全新的软结构工程方法，在由高强度织物和薄膜制成的充气结构中省略完全刚性的材料。制造针对人体易受拉伤部位（即下​​半身和核心）的人体辅助外骨骼设备，这种具有驱动功能的柔软可穿戴自适应服装可提供更高的可变刚度和稳定性。与其他现有方法相比，它的力重量比更高，并且完全同时符合每个关节复杂的运动学，因此，新的设计方法可以用作构建块，以实现对多自由度关节的完整辅助。 SWAG 的进步将在 4 个不同的应用场景中得到展示，该项目汇集了来自 5 个欧盟国家和英国的 13 个合作伙伴。他们是由在各自领域拥有良好业绩记录的领先学者组成的跨学科组合，得到了具有开发和验证应用驱动解决方案能力的 RTO 以及两个旨在领导 SWAG 成果开发的商业合作伙伴的支持。