An ankle-foot emulation system for the study of human walking biomechanics

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 2939-2945

  Au, Samuel K ^a   Dilworth, Peter ^a   Herr, Hugh ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

Ankle foot emulator; Below knee prosthesis; Biomechanics; Biomimetic; Force control

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; FORCE CONTROL; GAIT ANALYSIS; MOBILE COMPUTING; PROSTHETICS; ROBOTICS;

ANKLE-FOOT EMULATORS; ANKLE-FOOT PROSTHESIS; BELOW-KNEE PROSTHESIS; PASSIVE PROSTHESIS;

BIOMECHANICS;

EID: 33845645146     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642148     Document Type: Conference Paper

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