DESIGN FEATURES

Let’s consider design features of passive exoskeletons on one example of its medical modifications (Photo 3). Represented device, is realized as fastening over clothes and over footwear. It allows to set dynamically dosed rigidity of a skeleton during the basic phases of locomotion and static restrictions of the linear sizes of trunks, bend and unbend values, movement resistance for all of the dimensions of ankle-joint , knee and hipbone joints movement and wide range of adaptation abilities of elements of a skeleton and fastening to different users’ anthropometrical parameters. Besides this, exoskeleton provides functional transformation due to numerous combinations of the listed properties, and also applications as modules of new and known technical decisions. So, using additional external module, (photo 6) device transformed into hybrid exoskeleton such as mobile armchair (cares in case of sudden falling), armchairs - rocking chairs,, armchairs - rocking chairs (comfortable rest), armchairs - carriages (moving with the help of hands). With these extensions the total weight of the device grows just a bit. With exoskeletons’ usage overwhelming forces of muscles is applied not for the body weight carrying and for achievement of balance and spatial moving.