Design and Simulation of a Hip Exoskeleton for Lateral Walking.

In this article, a rehabilitation exoskeleton assisted by lateral walking is designed to help patients with lower limb movement disorders to solve the problem of lateral walking assistance, so as to achieve the effect of rehabilitation training. Based on the characteristics of lateral movement of human body, the exoskeleton designed in this paper uses linear push rod motor and thigh binding to assist hip abduction and adduction respectively. Based on the research of human transverse movement gait, a reasonable linkage mechanism was designed and kinematics simulation was carried out. The dynamics model of human lower limbs was established and calculated with MATLAB simulation software. the moment of hip joint lateral movement is obtained. Finally, the structural parameters of the driving mechanism were analyzed by dynamic simulation, and the simulation results were compared with the target motion function to verify the rationality of the design.