Powered assistive devices have been playing a major role in gait rehabilitation. Hereby, the development of time-effective control strategies to manage such devices is a key concern to rehabilitation engineering. This paper presents a real-time Feedback-Error Learning control strategy, by means of an Artificial Neural Network as a feedforward controller to acquire the inverse model of the plant, and a Proportional-Integral-Derivative feedback controller to guarantee stability and handle with disturbances. A Powered Knee Orthosis was used as the assistive device and a trajectory generator assistive strategy, previously acquired through an inertial system, was applied. A validation with one subject walking in a treadmill at 1 km/h with the Powered Knee Orthosis controlled by the Feedback-Error Learning control was performed. Evidences on the control behavior presented good performances, with the Artificial Neural Network taking 90 seconds to learn the inverse model, which enabled a decrease in the angular position error by 75% and eliminated the phase delay, when compared to solo Proportional-Integral-Derivative feedback controller. Robust reactions to external disturbances were also achieved. The implemented Feedback-Error Learning strategy proves to be a time-effective asset to control assistive powered devices. ; This work has been supported in part by the Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT) with the Reference Scholarship under Grant SFRH/BD/108309/2015, and part by the FEDER Funds through the Programa Operacional Regional do Norte and national funds from FCT with the project SmartOs -Controlo Inteligente de um Sistema Ortotico Ativo e Autonomo-under Grant NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-030386, and by the FEDER Funds through the COMPETE 2020-Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalizacao (POCI)-with the Reference Project under Grant POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006941 and supported by grant RYC-2014-16613 by Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.


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    Title :

    Feedback-error learning for gait rehabilitation using a powered knee orthosis: first advances


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    Publication date :

    2019-01-01



    Type of media :

    Conference paper


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    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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    DDC:    629



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