Active orthoses (AOs) are becoming relevant for user-oriented training in gait rehabilitation. This implies efficient responses of AO's low-level controllers with short time modeling for medical applications. This thesis investigates, in an innovative way, the performance of Feedback-Error Learning (FEL) control to time-effectively adapt the AOs' responses to user-oriented trajectories and changes in the dynamics due to the interaction with the user. FEL control comprises a feedback PID controller and a neural network feedforward controller to promptly learn the inverse dynamics of two AOs. It was carried out experiments with able-bodied subjects walking on a treadmill and considering external disturbances to user-AO interaction. Results showed that the FEL control effectively tracked the user-oriented trajectory with position errors between 5% to 7%, and with a mean delay lower than 25 ms. Compared to a single PID control, the FEL control decreased by 16.5% and 90.7% the position error and delay, respectively. Moreover, the feedforward controller was able to learn the inverse dynamics of the two AOs and adapt to variations in the user-oriented trajectories, such as speed and angular range, while the feedback controller compensated for random disturbances. FEL demonstrated to be an efficient low-level controller for controlling AOs during gait rehabilitation. ; This work has been supported in part by the Fundação para a Ciência 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 Ortótico Ativo e Autónomo - under Grant NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-030386, and by the FEDER Funds through the COMPETE 2020—Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (POCI)—with the Reference Project under Grant POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006941.
Feedback-error learning control for powered assistive devices
2020-01-01
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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