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Human–machine coupling dynamics modeling and adaptive admittance control of lower limb rehabilitation robot
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2025
Abstract
Human–machine compatibility and collaborative control for stroke patients utilizing lower limb rehabilitation robots have attracted considerable research attention. As a highly human–machine-coupled system, ensuring adequate compliance and safety is fundamental to efficient and comfortable rehabilitation. Therefore, this paper first quantifies human–machine contact interactions, proposes a human–machine coupling dynamics modeling method, and identifies the robot’s dynamic inertia parameters and human lower limb parameters. Second, a dual closed-loop controller for the rehabilitation robot is designed. Based on the bottom position control, an adaptive admittance control algorithm is proposed that employs the root-mean-square propagation (RMSprop) algorithm to tune the adaptive gain. In rehabilitation training, the controller can adaptively adjust the admittance parameters according to the human–machine interaction force to achieve responsiveness to the dynamic changes of the human–machine system. The experimental results of the control system show that the human–machine cooperative control performance is significantly improved, the maximum joint angle error is reduced by more than 40.9%, and the maximum human–machine interaction force is reduced by more than 19.4%.
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