Design of an Orthotic Device for Full or Partial Gravity-Balancing of a Human upper Arm during Motion

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 2841-2846

  Agrawal, Sunil K ^a   Fattah, Abbas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); GRAVITATION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; POTENTIAL ENERGY;

AUXILIARY PARALLELOGRAMS; INDUSTIAL MACHINES;

ORTHOTICS;

EID: 0346148601     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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