Wearable Robotics

3 credits

Introduces the field of wearable robotics, with emphasis on lower-limb exoskeletons and prostheses. Students learn modern approaches for design, control, and evaluation of wearable robots for human locomotion. Topics include neural control of movement, musculoskeletal modeling and simulation, robotic control architectures, applications of machine learning, neural interfacing, and tools for real-world physiological evaluation of wearable robots. Prerequisite: experience with MATLAB, or similar programming experience.