An autonomous, underactuated exoskeleton for load-carrying augmentation

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1410-1415

  Walsh, Conor James ^a   Pasch, Kenneth ^a   Herr, Hugh ^a,b  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Control; Exoskeleton; State machine; Walking

Indexed keywords

JOINTS (ANATOMY); LOADS (FORCES); MICROACTUATORS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION ESTIMATION;

GAIT CYCLES; GROUND-EXOSKELETON FORCE; POWERED PLANTARFLEXION; STATE-MACHINE CONTROL STRATEGY;

GAIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 34250677630     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.281932     Document Type: Conference Paper

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