基于人体动力学分析的下肢外骨骼助力设计及机构优化  

Design and mechanism optimization of lower limb exoskeleton based on human dynamics analysis

作　　者：陈贵亮[1] 李子浩 蔡超 李永超 杨冬[1] CHEN Guiliang;LI Zihao;CAI Chao;LI Yongchao;YANG Dong(School of Mechanical Engineering,Hebei University of Technology,Tianjin 300401,China)

机构地区：[1]河北工业大学机械工程学院,天津300401

出　　处：《工程设计学报》2023年第3期362-371,共10页Chinese Journal of Engineering Design

基　　金：国家自然科学基金资助项目(U1813222);河北省重点研发基金资助项目(19211816D)。

摘　　要：为设计助力效果良好的被动式下肢外骨骼,基于对人体行走的运动和力学特征以及相关主要肌群的力学表现的分析,提出了一种下肢外骨骼优化设计方法。通过开展人体行走实验,获取人体运动学信息和足底反力,并将其用于驱动Anybody仿真,从而得到人体行走过程中下肢肌肉的力学数据。借助Hill肌肉模型建立人体矢状面内的髋关节肌肉-肌腱-骨骼简化模型,并在该模型中添加虚拟扭簧以模拟助力外骨骼的作用,形成人体-外骨骼一体化模型。在此基础上,对穿戴助力外骨骼行走时的人机交互力以及穿戴者的肌肉激活情况进行量化分析。建立以扭簧刚度为变量的肌肉激活程度、代谢能计算模型,并以代谢能最低为目标,利用粒子群算法对虚拟扭簧的刚度进行优化以获得最优值。据此,提出髋关节助力外骨骼机构设计方案,并以机构的辅助力矩与虚拟扭簧力矩差值最小为目标进行优化,得到机构中拉簧刚度和各个连杆尺寸的最优值,作为外骨骼机构设计参数。同时,制作髋关节助力外骨骼样机并开展助力行走实验。结果表明,穿戴该助力外骨骼行走时人体代谢能降低效果显著。研究方法可为其他下肢外骨骼的设计和分析提供借鉴。In order to design a passive lower limb exoskeleton with good assisting effect,an optimal design method of lower limb exoskeleton was proposed based on the analysis of the motion and mechanical characteristics of human walking and the mechanical performance of the relevant major muscle groups.Through the human walking experiment,the kinematics information and plantar reaction force were obtained to drive the simulation of Anybody,and the mechanical data of lower limb muscles during walking were obtained.With the help of Hill muscle model,a simplified model of muscle-tendon-bone of hip joint in the sagittal plane of the human body was established,and a virtual torsion spring was added to simulate the role of exoskeleton,forming an integrated model of human body and exoskeleton.On this basis,the human-computer interaction force and the muscle activation of the wearer were quantitatively analyzed when wearing the assisted exoskeleton.The calculation models of muscle activation degree and metabolizable energy with torsion spring stiffness as variable were established,and the stiffness of virtual torsion spring was optimized by particle swarm optimization to obtain the optimal value with the goal of minimum metabolizable energy.Based on this,the design scheme of hip joint assisted exoskeleton mechanism was proposed,and the difference between the auxiliary torque of the mechanism and the virtual torsion spring torque was minimized as the goal to optimize,and the optimal values of the tension spring stiffness and the size of each connecting rod were obtained as the design parameters of the exoskeleton mechanism.At the same time,the prototype of hip joint assisted exoskeleton was made and the experiment of assisted walking was carried out.The results showed that the metabolic energy of human body was significantly reduced when wearing the assisted exoskeleton.The research method can provide reference for the design and analysis of other lower limb exoskeletons.

关 键 词：助力外骨骼 人体动力学 人体建模 运动助力 Hill肌肉模型 

分 类 号：TP242[自动化与计算机技术—检测技术与自动化装置]