Assembly and Reconfiguration of the Modular Backdrivable Lower-Limb Unloading Exoskeleton (M-BLUE)

Conversion of off-the-shelf knee and hip orthoses into knee-only, hip-only, and hip-knee versions of M-BLUE (Modular Backdrivable Lower-limb Unloading Exoskeleton) at the University of Michigan. Playback is sped up 300% and depicts the installation of Dephy actuators and custom sheet metal adaptors. Supplementary material for the article: C. Nesler, G. Thomas, N. Divekar, E. Rouse, and R. Gregg, “Enhancing Voluntary Motion with Modular, Backdrivable, Powered Hip and Knee Orthoses,“ IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters, 2022. This work was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.