A Novel Gait Prediction Method for Soft Exosuit Base on Limit Cycle and Neural Network

The important purpose of soft exosuit is to decrease the energy consumption of users by providing assistance. If there is something wrong with the judgment of the human gait during the assisting process, the assisting effect will be poor and even people's walking will be affected. A novel method is designed to predict human gait information in the paper, which utilizes the curve shape and mathematical characteristics of the Rayleigh oscillator equation in limit cycle to fit gait information. Only 1/4 gait cycle data is needed to input into the trained neural network to output an Rayleigh oscillator equation that can better predict the remaining gait cycle information. Data of four subjects on different terrains which include flat ground and upstairs are collected. Experiment results showed that the trained ANN model costs about 0.006s in CPU, it has a prediction speed similar to traditional prediction methods. Simultaneously the Rayleigh oscillator equation has good performance in predicting gait information, and it can show a higher stability and accuracy compared with traditional gait prediction methods.