🦾 Research

Wearable Soft Robots & Gait Assistance

Soft exoskeletonGait evaluationHybrid robot suitGrasp assistance

Overview

A soft wearable robot is only useful if you can prove it actually helps. My work develops the quantitative metrics and evaluation protocols for soft exosuits and hybrid robot suits that assist walking and grasping — from early lab prototypes through field-ready designs.

Methodology

Gait and lower-limb kinematic metrics for evaluating walking performance with soft wearable gait-assistance robots.
Motion capture, metabolic systems (energy efficiency), and musculoskeletal simulation to analyze joint loads and motion patterns for a hybrid, human-augmentation robot suit.
Evaluation methods for grasping-assistance wearable soft robots, developed as part of a long-running Engineering Research Center (ERC) program.

Selected Outputs

Developing Evaluation Methods for Analyzing the Effects of Soft Wearable Robots — Researcher, Ministry of Health & Welfare, 2023.4–2024.4.
Developing the Wearable Soft Robots for Human Performance Augmentation (ERC, 3rd phase) — Researcher, Ministry of Science and ICT, 2023.1–2026.5.
Technology Innovation Program: Development of Safe and Comfortable Human Augmentation Hybrid Robot Suit — Senior Researcher, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, 2021.4–2024.12.