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Dean D. Molinaro

4 accepted papers

2023

Anticipation and Delayed Estimation of Sagittal Plane Human Hip Moments using Deep Learning and a Robotic Hip Exoskeleton

ICRA 2023poster

Estimating human joint moments using wearable sensors has utility for personalized health monitoring and generalized exoskeleton control. Data-driven models have potential to map wearable sensor data to human joint moments, even with a reduced sensor suite and without subject-specific calibration. I…

Cited by 9SourceScholar
2022

Deep Learning Enables Exoboot Control to Augment Variable-Speed Walking

RA-L 2022

Ankle exoskeletons have the potential to improve mobility, but common controllers are often inflexible to variations in tasks, such as changes in walking speed. To enable effective variable-speed exoboot control, we developed and validated a two-headed convolutional neural network trained to (1) cla

Cited by 38SourceScholar
2021

Real-Time Gait Phase Estimation for Robotic Hip Exoskeleton Control During Multimodal Locomotion

RA-L 2021

We developed and validated a gait phase estimator for real-time control of a robotic hip exoskeleton during multimodal locomotion. Gait phase describes the fraction of time passed since the previous gait event, such as heel strike, and is a promising framework for appropriately applying exoskeleton

Cited by 122SourceScholar
2021

Real-Time User-Independent Slope Prediction Using Deep Learning for Modulation of Robotic Knee Exoskeleton Assistance

RA-L 2021

Ground slope incline is a critical environmental variable that influences exoskeleton control parameters since human biological joint demand is correlated to changes in slope incline. Current literature methods take a heuristic approach by numerically calculating the slope incline from on-board mech

Cited by 34SourceScholar