Positive feedback in powered exoskeletons: Improved metabolic efficiency at the cost of reduced stability?

2007 Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, DETC2007

Volumn 5 PART C, Issue , 2008, Pages 1619-1626

  Norris, James A ^a   Marsh, Anthony P ^b   Granata, Kevin P ^c   Ross, Shane D ^c  

^a VT WFU School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; CON TROL ALGORITHMS; DESTABILIZING EFFECTS; DYNAMIC STABILITY; DYNAMIC SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC WALKING; FLOQUET MULTIPLIERS; FOOT ORTHOSES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; INTERNATIONAL DESIGNS; LOWER EXTREMITY; LYAPUNOV EXPONENT (LE); MAXIMUM LYAPUNOV EXPONENT (MLE); METABOLIC ENERGY; MULTI-BODY SYSTEM (MBS); NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEMS; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; ORBITAL STABILITY; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; POWER ASSISTANCE; TECHNICAL CONFERENCES; WALKING STABILITY;

EID: 44949119535     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2007-35657     Document Type: Conference Paper

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