Robotic platform for human gait analysis

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1696-1702

  Van Doornik, Johan ^a   Sinkjær, Thomas ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Human gait analysis; Parallel manipulator; Posturography; Robotics

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); GAIT ANALYSIS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HYDRAULIC CONTROL EQUIPMENT; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

HUMAN GAIT ANALYSIS; PARALLEL MANIPULATORS; POSTUROGRAPHY;

ROBOTICS;

ACCELERATION; ANKLE; ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; GAIT; HEEL; REFLEX; REPEAT PROCEDURE; ROBOTICS; VELOCITY;

BIOMECHANICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GAIT; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; ROBOTICS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 34548126190     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.894949     Document Type: Article

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