ARES is the second project of the Exoforge initiative. ARES project aims at developing a knee exoskeleton. In order to build the exoskeleton, 3 different teams will work together to solve aspects of robot design, simulation, construction, movement planning, control and interface design.

Project goals:

• Study of low-cost knee orthoses that allow adding an actuator.

• Mechanical design of the exoskeleton.

• Printing of the necessary parts for the assembly of the exoskeleton.

• Biomechanical study of human gait for the planning of valid trajectories for the exoskeleton.

• Definition on ROS of trajectories to be followed by the actuator.

• Torque control of the actuator on ROS.