Intention-based walking support for paraplegia patients with Robot Suit HAL

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1441-1469

  Suzuki, Kenta ^a   Mito, Gouji ^a   Kawamoto, Hiroaki ^b   Hasegawa, Yasuhisa ^a   Sankai, Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b Japan Association for the Advancement of Medical Equipment   (Japan)

Author keywords

Floor reaction force; Intention estimation; Paraplegia; Robot suit; Walking support

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; MECHANICAL CONTROL EQUIPMENT; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; MOTION CONTROL; PATIENT TREATMENT;

FLOOR REACTION FORCE; INTENTION ESTIMATION; ROBOT CONTROL; ROBOT SUITS; WALKING SUPPORT;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 34548439885     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855307781746061     Document Type: Article

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