Abstract
Passive control and semi-active control of vibration in mechanical systems have recently successfully been used in automobiles and airplanes suspension systems. These control techniques are able to guarantee the performances of all vibration structures. Unfortunately, the knowledge and data has not been readily applied to human prosthetics. The information collected can be directly applied to accelerate research into dampening for prosthetics. A focus of this paper is on modeling and controlling vibrations by a given impulse onto prosthetic legs. Simulations of using passive control and idealized skyhook dampening are using Matlab to complete. Through model analysis, control variable, simulation procedures and comparison of two modeling, the models have been refined and with idealized skyhook dampening suspension provide significant improvement of the body characteristics compared with passive suspensions.
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