Technology for Simulating Human Activities in Partial Gravity

• Simulate any gravity level from 0 to 1g
• Multi-DOF mechanism and exoskeletons
• Reliable passive technology
• Ambient lab environment
• Low cost

Publications

• Lu Q.; Ortega C. and Ma O.; “Passive gravity compensation mechanisms: technologies and applications”, Recent Patents on Eng., Vol.5, 2011.
• Paz, R.A., Barajas, J.C., Ma, O., “Autobalancing Control for a Reduced Gravity Simulator”, 2013 IEEE/ASME Intl. Conf. on Advanced Intel. Mech. (AIM), July 2013.
• Xiu, W., Ruble, K. and Ma O., “A Reduced-Gravity Simulator for Physically Simulating Human Walking in Microgravity or Reduced-Gravity Environment”, 2014 Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Auto. (ICRA), June 2014.