A preliminary study of the military applications and future of individual exoskeletons

Jia-Yong, Zhou; Liu, Ye; Xin-Min, MO; Han, Chongwei; Meng, Xiangzhong; Li, Qiang; Yue-jin, Wang; Ang, Zhang

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1507/10/102044

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“…Human augmentation is a goal that people have always pursued, but in recent years there have been new projects related to exosuits that can help further enhance soldiers' performances on the battlefield. 21 One such project was the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS), a combat suit designed by U.S. Special Operations Command. It included a full-body exoskeleton that provided protection from small arms fire, as well as enhanced situational awareness.…”

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A New Way of War: The Swarmers

Montingelli¹

2022

ExpwMCUP

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It seems that the future of warfare is in the hands of technology: drones and machines in general are likely to be among the major players in tomorrow’s battlefield. However, those who believe that human beings will be completely deprived of the art of war are mistaken. In the future, humans will not be mere players from behind the scenes. The human factor will be decisive, just as it was in the days of Alexander III, Julius Caesar, and Napoleon Bonaparte. Obviously a “new military figure” is needed, one who is capable of combining different ideas in an efficient and successful way. This article seeks to outline this figure on the basis of two fundamental concepts. Consideration will be given to swarming, a tactic used since antiquity and now used primarily for drones, and human-machine teaming, a concept that is gaining momentum in the fields of military science and technology. The intent here is to understand if these ideas can generate a new player capable of interpreting—and winning—future warfare.

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Section: The Swarmer: a Human-machine Hybridmentioning

confidence: 99%

A New Way of War: The Swarmers

Montingelli¹

2022

ExpwMCUP

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“…At contact forces this large, the leg would not be able to exert sufficient force without serious muscular or skeletal damage. However, for humans in exoskeletons and/or robots [56,57,58], this would be physically possible. Each resonance observes a non-linear softening effect with increasing amplitude.…”

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Parametric exploration of a simple model of human jumping on an oscillating structure

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Journal of Sound and Vibration

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“…Other rigid-type exoskeletons provide additional force or torque to reduce the muscular effort needed to complete manual work, thereby improving workers’ endurance and productivity [ 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 ]. Their use has been widely explored beyond the laboratory environment, specifically in industrial [ 21 ], rehabilitative [ 22 ], and military [ 23 ] applications.…”

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A Critical Review on Factors Affecting the User Adoption of Wearable and Soft Robotics

Ang

Yeow

Lim

2023

Sensors

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In recent years, the advent of soft robotics has changed the landscape of wearable technologies. Soft robots are highly compliant and malleable, thus ensuring safe human-machine interactions. To date, a wide variety of actuation mechanisms have been studied and adopted into a multitude of soft wearables for use in clinical practice, such as assistive devices and rehabilitation modalities. Much research effort has been put into improving their technical performance and establishing the ideal indications for which rigid exoskeletons would play a limited role. However, despite having achieved many feats over the past decade, soft wearable technologies have not been extensively investigated from the perspective of user adoption. Most scholarly reviews of soft wearables have focused on the perspective of service providers such as developers, manufacturers, or clinicians, but few have scrutinized the factors affecting adoption and user experience. Hence, this would pose a good opportunity to gain insight into the current practice of soft robotics from a user’s perspective. This review aims to provide a broad overview of the different types of soft wearables and identify the factors that hinder the adoption of soft robotics. In this paper, a systematic literature search using terms such as “soft”, “robot”, “wearable”, and “exoskeleton” was conducted according to PRISMA guidelines to include peer-reviewed publications between 2012 and 2022. The soft robotics were classified according to their actuation mechanisms into motor-driven tendon cables, pneumatics, hydraulics, shape memory alloys, and polyvinyl chloride muscles, and their pros and cons were discussed. The identified factors affecting user adoption include design, availability of materials, durability, modeling and control, artificial intelligence augmentation, standardized evaluation criteria, public perception related to perceived utility, ease of use, and aesthetics. The critical areas for improvement and future research directions to increase adoption of soft wearables have also been highlighted.

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A preliminary study of the military applications and future of individual exoskeletons

Cited by 19 publications

References 18 publications

A New Way of War: The Swarmers

A New Way of War: The Swarmers

Parametric exploration of a simple model of human jumping on an oscillating structure

A Critical Review on Factors Affecting the User Adoption of Wearable and Soft Robotics

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