Improvement of Accuracy in a High-Capacity, Six Degree-of-freedom Load Cell: Application to Robotic Testing of Musculoskeletal Joints

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 839-843

  Gilbertson, Lars G ^a   Doehring, Todd C ^a   Livesay, Glen A ^a   Rudy, Theodore W ^a   Kang, James D ^a   Woo, Savio L Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanical testing; Kinetics; Load displacement response; Musculoskeletal joint systems; Universal force moment sensor (UFS)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; JOINT; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROBOTICS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; WEIGHT BEARING;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CALIBRATION; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; HUMANS; JOINTS; LINEAR MODELS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROBOTICS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0033220468     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1114/1.236     Document Type: Article

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