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DESIGN OPTIMIZATION OF A KNEE JOINT FOR THE GAIT REHABILITATION EXOSKELETON
This work is done towards the enhancement of the knee joint mechanism to achieve
best alignment possible between exoskeleton and human knee joint motion. Various
studies have concluded that the misalignment at the knee joints causes inconveniences
and unnecessary stress to the points where the exoskeleton is attached to the human
limbs. The literature review done for this work, confirmed that improper exoskeleton’s
knee joint design negatively affects rehabilitation process, this also can be confirmed
by the results of clinical trials conducted by the research team in one of the national
polyclinics. Therefore, the complex structure of biological human joints has to be
considered during the design process of the exoskeleton. In this thesis work, several
design concepts were compared, then the most promising concept among those was
revealed as the result of the computational and practical experiments