Loaded walking with typical rigid backpack results in a significant increase the mechanical energy of stance leg and decrease lateral stability. Allowing load to swing, which has been applied shoulder pole, tool widely used Asia for carriage assistance, may attenuate these effects. This paper theoretically analyzes experimentally validates biomechanical energetic effects swinging loads. When 30...

Abstract Silage equipment can crush crops into small materials, which be used as feed for livestock farms to achieve efficient and reasonable utilization of resources. In this paper, based on the completion overall scheme design a modular backpack silage equipment, integration crop crushing, bundling coating is realized. At same time, control system suitable programmable logic controller (PLC) ...

Abstract This paper presents a passive exoskeleton with 17 degrees-of-freedom (DOF) for load-carrying, which includes two 3DOFs ankle joint, 2DOFs hip 1DOF knee one backpack, and redundant DOFs at the thigh shank, respectively, to improve compatibility of human-machine locomotion. The modular backpack was designed facilitate carrying different loads. A horn-shaped spatial mechanism connect join...