Exoskeleton Wear Management System for Self-Correcting Alignment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current exoskeleton devices require professional assistance for correct wearing, leading to reduced applicability, use efficiency, and increased risk of incorrect output.

Innovation Solution

An exoskeleton wear management system with a sensing system and exoskeleton wear management device that uses inertial and image scanning data to prompt adjustments and automatically correct the positioning of components, allowing users to correctly wear the device without professional intervention.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If professional assistance is required for wearing the exoskeleton device, then the device can be correctly worn, but the applicability and use efficiency are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecorrect wearVSAvoidapplicability

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The exoskeleton wear management system enables the device to self-diagnose and self-correct wear status through integrated sensing systems and processing units that automatically detect component positions and provide real-time guidance, eliminating the need for professional assistance while maintaining correct wear

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors the wear status of the exoskeleton device through sensing systems and provides real-time feedback to users via processing units, enabling users to self-correct any positioning issues without professional intervention and thereby improving both reliability and adaptability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If professional assistance is required for wearing the exoskeleton device, then the device can be correctly worn, but the use efficiency is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecorrect wearVSAvoiduse efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables users to independently manage the wearing process through automated detection and real-time guidance, eliminating the time loss associated with professional assistance while maintaining correct wear, thereby improving use efficiency

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The sensing system continuously monitors wear status from the beginning of the wearing process, and the processing unit provides real-time guidance before incorrect wear is established, preventing time loss and improving overall use efficiency

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Ease of operation

If the exoskeleton device is not correctly worn, then the device can be easily worn, but the work efficiency decreases and risk increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of wearingVSAvoidwork efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides continuous real-time feedback on wear status through sensing systems and processing units, guiding users to correct positioning automatically and ensuring both ease of wearing and reliable work efficiency without requiring professional intervention

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The exoskeleton wear management system enables the device to self-monitor and self-correct wear status, allowing users to easily wear the device while maintaining correct positioning through automated detection and real-time guidance, thereby ensuring both ease of operation and work efficiency

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

Enhances the usability and efficiency of exoskeleton devices by ensuring correct wear, reducing the risk of incorrect output and improving work efficiency.

Implementation Method 1

The sensing system is configured to continuously sense a current posture of the exoskeleton device to output inertial data corresponding to the current posture to the exoskeleton wear management device

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectInertial sensing: Accelerometer

Implementation Method 2

The plurality of image scanning devices are installed on the exoskeleton device and coupled to the exoskeleton wear management device, wherein each of the plurality of image scanning devices is configured to continuously perform an image scanning operation

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectImage scanning: Photography

Data Source

PatentUS11478394B2Exoskeleton wear management system and exoskeleton wear management method

Publication Date: 2022.10.25 WISTRON CORP

AI summary

An exoskeleton wear management method is provided. The method includes receiving inertial data from a sensing system; determining whether a left leg component of an exoskeleton device is parallel to a left leg of a user and a right leg component of the exoskeleton device is parallel to a right leg of the user according to the received inertial data; in response to determining that the left leg component/the right leg component is not parallel to the left leg/the right leg of the user, prompting an adjusting left leg component message/an adjusting right leg component message; and in response to determining that the left leg component is parallel to the left leg of the user and the right leg component is parallel to the right leg of the user, prompting a left leg component and right leg component correctly-worn message.