Dynamically controlled ankle-foot orthosis (DCO) with regenerative kinetics: Incrementally attaining user portability

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1541-1546

  Hitt, Joseph ^a   Oymagil, A Mehmet ^a   Sugar, Thomas ^a   Hollander, Kevin ^b   Boehler, Alex ^a   Fleeger, Jennifer ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b Augspurger Komm Engineering Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Ankle foot orthosis; Dynamic control; Power amplification; Power energy density; Robotic tendon

Indexed keywords

ANKLE FOOT ORTHOSIS; DYNAMIC CONTROL; POWER AMPLIFICATION; POWER/ENERGY DENSITY; ROBOTIC TENDON;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIPED LOCOMOTION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 36348968849     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363543     Document Type: Conference Paper

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