Research Article

Robust Control of the Knee Joint Angle of Paraplegic Patients considering Norm-Bounded Uncertainties

Table 1

Parameter values obtained experimentally in [5, 6, 11] to the shank-foot complex of a paraplegic, 30-year-old patient.

ParameterValue Unit

Inertial moment of shank-foot complex 0.362 Kg⋅m2
Mass of shank-foot complex 4.37 Kg
Distance between knee and the center of the mass of shank-foot complex23.8 cm
Viscous coefficient 0.27 N⋅m⋅s/rad
Coefficient of exponential term 41.208 N⋅m/rad
Coefficient of exponential term 2.024 rad−1
Resting elastic knee angle2.918rad
Transfer function coefficient (time constant of the pole)0.951 s
Transfer function coefficient (static gain)42500 N⋅m/s