Rehabilitative knee orthosis driven by electro-rheological fluid based actuators

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 2283-2289

  Nikitczuk, Jason ^a   Weinberg, Brian ^a   Mavroidis, Constantinos ^a,b  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

^b IEEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Compact actuators; Electro rheological fluids; Rehabilitation robotics; Smart orthoses

Indexed keywords

ELECTRO-RHEOLOGICAL FLUID (ERF); REHABILITATION ROBOTICS; REHABILITATIVE KNEE ORTHOSIS; SMART ORTHOSES;

ACTUATORS; BRACES (FOR LIMBS AND JOINTS); ELECTRIC FIELDS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; RHEOLOGY; TORQUE; VISCOSITY; YIELD STRESS;

ORTHOTICS;

EID: 33645675442     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570453     Document Type: Conference Paper

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