# Open-Source Knee Exoskeleton: Generating Biological Torque Control with Musculoskeletal Simulation

- Source: arXiv cs.RO
- Published: 2026-11-02T05:00:00.000Z
- RoboHot: https://robohot.news/en/items/d7kn5cxpcfr1oazu1l3uvgq0b
- Original: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.41981

## Summary

A research team has released an open-source knee exoskeleton built from off-the-shelf components, whose biological torque controller is generated entirely by simulation, requiring no training data collected on the target device. The method uses a muscle-driven imitation policy to reproduce squatting motions from a public biomechanics dataset, then distills the knee joint torque into an estimator that relies only on onboard sensors.