Wearable exoskeletons are electro-mechanical systems designed to assist, augment, or enhance motion and mobility in a variety of human motion applications and scenarios. The applications cover a wide range of domains including medical devices for patient rehabilitation training in trauma recovery, movement aids for disabled persons, personal care robots for providing daily living assistance, and reduction of physical burden in industrial, manufacturing, security and military applications. The development of effective and affordable wearable exoskeletons poses several design, control and modelling challenges to researchers and manufacturers. Novel technologies are therefore being developed in a wide range of applications including adaptive motion controllers, human-robot interaction control, biological sensors and actuators, and materials and structures.

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Survey of industrial exoskeletons - manufacturers, products, market and challenges
• Chapter 3: Lower-limb wearable robotics
• Chapter 4: Review of exoskeletons for Medical and Service Applications: Ongoing Research on Wearable Robots with a Focus on Lower Extremity Exoskeletons
• Chapter 5: Control and Performance of Upper- and Lower Extremity SEA-based Exoskeletons
• Chapter 6: Soft wearable robots
• Chapter 7: Soft Wearable Assistive Robotics: exosuits and supernumerary Limbs
• Chapter 8: Design and control of spherical shoulder exoskeletons for assistive applications
• Chapter 9: Real-Time Gait Planning for Lower-Limb Exoskeleton Robots
• Chapter 10: Walking assistive devices based on inclusive design
• Chapter 11: Calibration platform for wearable 3D motion sensors
• Chapter 12: New wearable sensors for onsite ergonomic assessment
• Chapter 13: Useability engineering for designing the user interface of exoskeletons
• Chapter 14: Lessons learned from exoskeletons developed from the perspective of geographical and/or user acceptance
• Chapter 15: Test Methods for Exoskeletons: Lessons Learned from Industrial and Response Robotics
• Chapter 16: International regulations for wearable exoskeletons
• Chapter 17: Conclusions