Passive-type intelligent walking support system "RT Walker"

2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 3871-3876

  Hirata, Yasuhisa ^a,b   Hara, Asami ^a   Kosuge, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOBILITY ASSISTANCE; ROBOT TECHNOLOGY (RT); RT WALKERS; WALKING SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

ACTUATORS; ALGORITHMS; FUNCTIONS; HEALTH CARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBOTS; VISION;

WALKING AIDS;

EID: 14044257281     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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