Upper limb tremor suppression in ADL via an orthosis incorporating a controllable double viscous beam actuator

Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE 9th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 119-122

  Loureiro, Rui C V ^a   Belda Lois, Juan M ^b   Lima, Eduardo R ^c   Pons, Jose L ^c   Sanchez Lacuesta, Javier J ^b   Harwin, William S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOMECÁNICA DE VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; DAMPING; DRUG THERAPY; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PATHOLOGY; RHEOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SURGERY;

ADL; AETIOLOGY; LIMB TREMOR; MAGNETO-RHEOLOGICAL FLUIDS; ORTHOSIS;

NEUROMUSCULAR REHABILITATION;

EID: 33745790090     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICORR.2005.1501065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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