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In wearable robot research, therefore, soft materials and tendon transmissions have been utilized to make robots compact and adaptable to the human body. However, when used for wearable robots, these methods sometimes cause uncertainties that originate from elongation of the soft material or from undefined human properties. In this research, to consider these uncertainties, we propose a data-driven method that identifies both kinematic and stiffness parameters using tension and wire stroke of the actuators. Through kinematic identification, a method is proposed to find the exact joint position as a function of the joint angle. Through stiffness identification, the relationship between the actuation force and the joint angle is obtained using Gaussian Process Regression (GPR). As a result, by applying the proposed method to a specific robot, the research outlined in this paper verifies how the proposed method can be used in wearable robot applications. This work examines a novel wearable robot named Exo-Index, which assists a human\u2019s index finger through the use of three actuators. The proposed identification methods enable control of the wearable robot to result in appropriate postures for grasping objects of different shapes and sizes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20102852","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,5,18]],"date-time":"2020-05-18T02:43:42Z","timestamp":1589769822000},"page":"2852","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Joint Angle Estimation of a Tendon-Driven Soft Wearable Robot through a Tension and Stroke Measurement"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4659-3310","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Byungchul","family":"Kim","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Biorobotics Laboratory, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Gwanak-ro 1, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Korea"},{"name":"Soft Robotics Research Center, Seoul National University, Gwanak-ro 1, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Korea"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7927-9654","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jiwon","family":"Ryu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Biorobotics Laboratory, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Gwanak-ro 1, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Korea"},{"name":"Soft Robotics Research Center, Seoul National University, Gwanak-ro 1, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Korea"}]},{"given":"Kyu-Jin","family":"Cho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Biorobotics Laboratory, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Gwanak-ro 1, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Korea"},{"name":"Soft Robotics Research Center, Seoul National University, Gwanak-ro 1, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Korea"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,5,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Lee, Y., Kim, M., Lee, Y., Kwon, J., Park, Y.L., and Lee, D. 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