Functional electrical stimulation (FES) is an effective method to induce muscle contraction and to improve movements in individuals with injured central nervous system. In order to develop the FES systems for an individual with gait impairment, an appropriate control strategy must be designed to accurate tracking performance. The goal of this study is to present a method for designing proportional-derivative (PD) and sliding mode controllers (SMC) for the FES applied to the musculoskeletal model of an ankle joint to track the desired movements obtained by experiments on two healthy individuals during the gait cycle. Simulation results of the developed controller on musculoskeletal model of the ankle joint illustrated that the SMC is able to track the desired movements more accurately than the PD controller and prevents oscillating patterns around the experimentally measured data. Therefore, the sliding mode as the nonlinear method is more robust in face to unmodeled dynamics and model errors and track the desired path smoothly. Also, the required control effort is smoother in SMC with respect to the PD controller because of the nonlinearity.
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