Development of a lower extremity exoskeleton for human performance enhancement

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 3889-3894

  Liu, Xiaopeng ^a   Low, K H ^b   Yu, Hao Yong ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EXOSKELETONS; FUZZY CONDITIONS; HUMAN PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT;

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; FEEDBACK CONTROL; FUZZY SETS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; JOINT PROSTHESES; KINEMATICS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 14044276993     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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