Development of new mobility assistive robot for elderly people with body functional control -Estimating walking speed from floor reaction on treadmill

Proceedings of the First IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 2006, BioRob 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 118-123

  Kaneshige, Yuzo ^a   Nihei, Misato ^a   Fujie, Masakatsu G ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body function; Gait measurement; Mobility assistance; Quality of Life (QOL); Treadmill

Indexed keywords

DC MOTORS; EXERCISE EQUIPMENT; GAIT ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SPEED CONTROL; STEERING; WHEELS;

BODY FUNCTIONS; GAIT MEASUREMENTS; MOBILITY ASSISTANCE; QUALITY OF LIFE (QOL);

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33845571867     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIOROB.2006.1639070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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