The Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton Project
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In October 2003, the first functional load-bearing and energetically autonomous exoskeleton was demonstrated at Berkeley, walking at the average speed of two miles per hour while carrying 75 pounds of load. DARPA funded the Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton (BLEEX) project in 2000 at Berkeley. In general, four fundamental technologies were tackled during the course of this project. These four core technologies include the exoskeleton architectural design, control algorithm, a body LAN to host the control algorithm and an on-board power unit to power the actuators, sensors and the computers. This article gives an overview of this project.
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