Recently, good news came from the 18th “Challenge Cup” National College Students’ Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition. Our university’s project “Knee Joint Assisted Exoskeleton Robot for Climbing Conditions” won the “Satellite Level” Excellent Work Award (Third prize in the National Competition) in the Black Technology Special Track, which marks our university's breakthrough in the “Challenge Cup” National Competition.
The project was organized by four students, including Wang Qihao, Zhang Zhengyu, Shen Zhezhou and Li Zhangning, with Zhang Guo’an from the School of Intelligent Manufacturing (Aeronautical Engineering) and Yang Benquan from the School of Electronics and Information Engineering (Big Data Science) as instructors. The knee joint assisted exoskeleton robot is a high-torque and lightweight auxiliary device designed to cope with various influencing factors in climbing conditions, such as steep slopes, rough ground and high loads. By adopting high-precision sensor technology, the system is capable of providing real-time monitoring of user movement and environmental information, and dynamically adjusting assistance strategies, so as to provide accurate and appropriate assistance support. In addition, based on the closed-loop human-machine interaction collaborative control strategy, it has achieved assistance to the human body and smooth motion performance with the aid of the plantar pressure sensor. On the premise of balancing load capacity, it has also taken lightweight and comfort design into account to ensure users’ comfort and saving of labor in climbing conditions. Through simulation and experimental verification, the research team has verified that the system can provide effective assistance to users when facing climbing conditions.
It is reported that among all the entries nationwide, 99 works are rated as “Galaxy Level” works, 181 works as “Star Level” works, 267 works as “Planet Level” works, and 330 works as “Satellite Level” works.
What’s more, in this year’s provincial “Challenge Cup” Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition, our university has won a total of 3 silver awards and 8 bronze awards in the Main Track, the Red Special Track and the Black Technology Special Track, which marks the best results in recent years. Besides the project “Knee Joint Assisted Exoskeleton Robot for Climbing Conditions”, the other two provincial silver awards go to the project “Precious Selenium — Highly Selective Synthesis of β-hydroxy-α-Selone Derivatives by Cyclopropanol Open-ring Selenization” (organized by Yao Jun, Cao Zenghui, Xu Jinjing, Wang Jianyan, Shen Chunjiao and Liu Jiayue, and supervised by Hu Dandan and Zhang Junqi from the School of Pharmaceutical and Chemical Engineering), and the project “Party Construction Leading Workshops and Concerted Efforts Promoting Common Prosperity — Based on the Investigation of 200 Common Prosperity Workshops in Taizhou” (organized by Wu Jiale, Wang Jiangchanyuan, Ni Liqian, Liu Maixi, Du Anqi, He Peiqi, He Ziyi, Cai Yixiao, Hu Xiying and Chen Ziying, and supervised by Zhao Xin, Jin Hongwei and Shan Renwei from the School of Humanities).
In the future, the university will continue to take the “Challenge Cup” series of competitions as an effective carrier for the cultivation of high-quality application-oriented talents, by widely promoting more young students to participate in the practice of scientific and technological innovation, and actively selecting and cultivating students’ outstanding innovative practical works, to write a new chapter of youth in the process of Chinese modernization.
