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Author: June il Park, Kimoon Nam, Juseok Yun, Junyoung Moon, Jaewook Ryu, Sungjin Park, Seungtae Yang, Alireza Nasirzadeh, Woochul Nam, Sruthi Ramadurai, Myunghee Kim*, and Giuk Lee*
Journal: Science Robotics
Published date: 2023.10
Link: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.ade0876
이 연구는 보행 효율을 높이기 위해 그동안 주로 다뤄졌던 전진 운동 외에 고관절 외전 동작에 주목한 새로운 착용형 로봇 기술을 소개합니다. 연구진은 인간의 생체 역학적 움직임을 모방한 힙 외전 보조가 보행 중 소모되는 대사 에너지를 약 11.6% 절감한다는 사실을 입증했습니다. 이 장치는 단순히 힘을 덜 들게 하는 것을 넘어, 신체의 좌우 균형과 무게 중심 이동에 직접적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났습니다. 특히 로봇의 지원은 보행 안정성을 유지하는 데 필요한 인간의 물리적 노력을 효과적으로 대체해 줍니다. 결론적으로 이 기술은 보행 효율 향상과 동적 균형 유지라는 두 가지 목적을 동시에 달성할 수 있는 혁신적인 가능성을 제시합니다.
Funding Information
*The Industrial Strategic Technology Development Program (no. 20007058), funded by the Ministry of Trade, Industry, & Energy (MOTIE, Korea), MSIT (Ministry of Science, ICT), Korea, under the High-Potential Individuals Global Training Program) (2021-0-01538) supervised by the IITP (Institute for Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation)
*Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), funded by the Ministry of Education (no. 2021R1A4A3030268)
*R&D Program for Forest Science Technology (no. 2021364B10-2123-BD01) provided by the Korea Forest Service (Korea Forestry Promotion Institute)
*Korea Medical Device Development Fund grant funded by the Korea government (the Ministry of Science and ICT, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the Ministry of Health & Welfare, the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety) (RS-2022-00140621).
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