分阶段训练人机协同外骨骼,实现自然适应与稳定助行。
SMAT: Staged Multi-Agent Training for Co-Adaptive Exoskeleton Control
- 按人体适应过程设计四阶段训练,逐步引入外骨骼影响
- 实测降低10.1%髋部肌肉激活,助行功率达13.6–23.8W
- 无需调参即可跨受试者通用,适合临床康复应用
有效外骨骼辅助需实现人机共适应:设备改变关节动力学后,用户重新组织神经肌肉协调,形成非平稳学习问题。现有方法未考虑运动适应的时序性,导致训练不稳且助力时机不佳。本文提出分阶段多智能体训练(SMAT),模拟人体自然适应过程。在26肌群下肢模型与髋外骨骼的MyoAssist仿真环境中,先训练人体无助力步态,再适应设备质量,随后外骨骼学习正向助力策略,最终双方在全扭矩能力与双向反馈下协同适应。仿真显示,所学控制策略较无助力状态平均降低10.1%髋部肌肉激活。离线验证使用开源步态数据,物理部署于五名受试者进行跑步机实验。结果表明,该策略可稳定提供正向机械功率(13.6W至23.8W,RMS扭矩6N·m至9.3N·m),负功极小,无需个体化重训练。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Effective exoskeleton assistance requires co-adaptation: as the device alters joint dynamics, the user reorganizes neuromuscular coordination, creating a non-stationary learning problem. Most learning-based approaches do not explicitly account for the sequential nature of human motor adaptation, leading to training instability and poorly timed assistance. We propose Staged Multi-Agent Training (SMAT), a four-stage curriculum designed to mirror how users naturally acclimate to a wearable device. In SMAT, a musculoskeletal human actor and a bilateral hip exoskeleton actor are trained progressively: the human first learns unassisted gait, then adapts to the added device mass; the exoskeleton subsequently learns a positive assistance pattern against a stabilized human policy, and finally both agents co-adapt with full torque capacity and bidirectional feedback. We implement SMAT in the MyoAssist simulation environment using a 26-muscle lower-limb model and an attached hip exoskeleton. Our musculoskeletal simulations demonstrate that the learned exoskeleton control policy produces an average 10.1% reduction in hip muscle activation relative to the no-assist condition. We validated the learned controller in an offline setting using open-source gait data, then deployed it to a physical hip exoskeleton for treadmill experiments with five subjects. The resulting policy delivers consistent assistance and predominantly positive mechanical power without the need for any explicitly imposed timing shift (mean positive power: 13.6 W at 6 Nm RMS torque to 23.8 W at 9.3 Nm RMS torque, with minimal negative power) consistently across all subjects without subject-specific retraining.
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