Development of NTU wearable exoskeleton system for assistive technologies

IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1099-1106

  Low, K H ^a   Liu, Xiaopeng ^a   Yu, Haoyong ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; STRUCTURAL LOADS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

LOWER EXTREMITY EXOSKELETON (LEE); POWER ASSISTED SYSTEM; SIMULATION MODEL; WEARABLE POWER-AIDED SYSTEM;

HUMAN REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 27744465294     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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