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Weighted point-to-point repetitive control for drop-foot assistance

Weighted point-to-point repetitive control for drop-foot assistance
Weighted point-to-point repetitive control for drop-foot assistance
Drop-foot is a neurological condition caused by nerve damage or as a result of a brain/spinal injury. The condition leads to a abnormal, slow, tiring gait with an increased probability of falls. Functional electrical stimulation (FES) has had considerable success in treating drop-foot, but commercial approaches lack closed loop control which degrades there performance. Currently closed loop controllers available in the research domain require significant sensory data or have limited accuracy, making them unsuitable for implementation. This paper is the first application of repetitive control (RC) to this problem. To overcome data requirements whilst maintaining accuracy of key gait events, a comprehensive point to point framework is derived. Further to this, a weighted modification is proposed allowing prioritisation of points. Simulation results for the ’weighted point-to-point’ and ’point-to-point’ RC frameworks for FES assisted drop-foot confirm their improved convergence and robust performance properties.
468-473
IEEE
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Freeman, C. T.
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Page, A. P., Freeman, C. T. and Chu, B. (2018) Weighted point-to-point repetitive control for drop-foot assistance. In 018 UKACC 12th International Conference on Control (CONTROL). IEEE. pp. 468-473 . (doi:10.1109/CONTROL.2018.8516840).

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Drop-foot is a neurological condition caused by nerve damage or as a result of a brain/spinal injury. The condition leads to a abnormal, slow, tiring gait with an increased probability of falls. Functional electrical stimulation (FES) has had considerable success in treating drop-foot, but commercial approaches lack closed loop control which degrades there performance. Currently closed loop controllers available in the research domain require significant sensory data or have limited accuracy, making them unsuitable for implementation. This paper is the first application of repetitive control (RC) to this problem. To overcome data requirements whilst maintaining accuracy of key gait events, a comprehensive point to point framework is derived. Further to this, a weighted modification is proposed allowing prioritisation of points. Simulation results for the ’weighted point-to-point’ and ’point-to-point’ RC frameworks for FES assisted drop-foot confirm their improved convergence and robust performance properties.

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Published date: 7 September 2018
Venue - Dates: UKACC 12th International Conference on Control, CONTROL 2018, , Sheffield, United Kingdom, 2018-09-05 - 2018-09-07

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Local EPrints ID: 428215
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/428215
PURE UUID: 28bb9b2f-b6ca-4fba-9d03-b8d9ada8abe7
ORCID for C. T. Freeman: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0305-9246
ORCID for B. Chu: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2711-8717

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Date deposited: 15 Feb 2019 17:30
Last modified: 11 Dec 2024 02:39

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Author: A. P. Page
Author: C. T. Freeman ORCID iD
Author: B. Chu ORCID iD

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