Research Article

Inverse Kinematics for Upper Limb Compound Movement Estimation in Exoskeleton-Assisted Rehabilitation

Table 4

ROM and RMSE metrics (mean ± std. dev.) of the angle estimations provided by the Exoskeleton and EIKPE. Values in bold indicate statistically significant differences in the accuracy of the approaches ( value 0.05).

MetricExoskeletonEIKPEImprovement

RMSE of SFE angle8.4 ± 4.73.9 ± 0.953%
ROM error of SFE angle18.0 ± 11.65.7 ± 2.868%
RMSE of SAA angle8.2 ± 4.63.3 ± 1.960%
ROM error of SAA angle16.9 ± 10.35.6 ± 4.767%
RMSE of SIER angle16.2 ± 6.66.5 ± 3.160%
ROM error of SIER angle17.4 ± 12.66.9 ± 5.660%
RMSE of EFE angle6.6 ± 1.45.8 ± 2.713%
ROM error of EFE angle8.8 ± 5.55.7 ± 3.735%

Error reduction with respect to the Exoskeleton by using EIKPE.