Research Article

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

Table 5

Assessment of estimation methods in terms of the LFM parameters.

Angle ExoskeletonEIKPE
(deg.) (deg.)

SFE 25.6 ± 6.70.35 ± 0.160.75 ± 0.13−0.53 ± 14.30.99 ± 0.360.83 ± 0.26
SAA −22.3 ± 19.21.69 ± 0.590.91 ± 0.16−0.87 ± 12.31.01 ± 0.320.91 ± 0.17
SIER −17.8 ± 42.90.85 ± 0.750.54 ± 0.2611.65 ± 11.91.23 ± 0.320.85 ± 0.18
EFE 10.6 ± 10.70.86 ± 0.150.94 ± 0.047.18 ± 6.60.97 ± 0.180.96 ± 0.05

Expected (ideal) values of the LFM parameters are , , and .