Design of a novel two degree-of-freedom ankle-foot orthosis

Journal of Mechanical Design

Volumn 129, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1137-1143

  Agrawal, Abhishek ^a   Sangwan, Vivek ^a   Banala, Sai K ^a   Agrawal, Sunil K ^a   Binder Macleod, Stuart A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DESIGN; MUSCLE; NEUROLOGY; WALKING AIDS;

ANKLE-FOOT ORTHOSIS; FLEXION/EXTENSION; PRONATION-SUPINATION; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ORTHOTICS;

EID: 36549084566     PISSN: 10500472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2771231     Document Type: Article

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