Dynamic Parameter Identification for an Ankle-Knee Prosthesis with Coulomb-Viscous Friction
Model-based prosthetic control strategies are still incompetent for practical implementations because modeling uncertainties and errors limit their precision. This paper investigates identifying the dynamic parameters of ankle-knee prostheses based on Coulomb-viscous friction for a newly designed powered prosthesis in the laboratory. Firstly, a powered ankle-knee prosthesis dynamic model, consid-ering the fixed transmission ratio for the knee joint and the nonlinear transmission ratio for the ankle joint, is developed based on the Lagrange method. Secondly, a Coulomb-viscous friction model is em-ployed to describe the joint friction characteristics in the prosthesis dynamic model. Finally, the dynamic parameters of the powered prosthesis are identified by the particle swarm optimization algorithm. Com-pared with CAD estimation, the root-mean-square errors between the actual and the reconstructed torques after parameter identification are reduced by 99.07% for the knee joint and 83.33% for the ankle joint, indicating that the model precision has been significantly enhanced. The effectiveness, as a conse-quence, provides a solid technical foundation for accurate prosthesis control.