Flexible Gait Enhancing Mechatronics System for Lower Limb Assistance (GEMS L-type)

This paper presents a novel wearable walking assistance device for the elderly, designed to aid them in their physical gait. In compliance with human motion and the human body, the device not only fits tightly to the lower body of a wearer, but also transmits the assisting torque to the hip/knee joint efficiently and comfortably. To overcome the poor wearability and assistive performance of conven...