Gravity-balancing leg orthosis and its performance evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1228-1239

  Banala, Sai K ^a   Agrawal, Sunil K ^a   Fattah, Abbas ^a   Krishnamoorthy, Vijaya ^a   Hsu, Wei Li ^a   Scholz, John ^a   Rudolph, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gait rehabilitation; Gravity balancing; Inverse dynamics; Passive orthosis; Rehabilitation robotics

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ORTHOTICS; ROBOTICS; WALKING AIDS;

GAIT REHABILITATION; INVERSE DYNAMICS; PASSIVE ORTHOSIS; REHABILITATION ROBOTICS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 33845533576     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2006.882928     Document Type: Article

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