Mechanical design of an active knee orthosis for gait rehabilitation

2007 IEEE 10th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 100-105

  Beyl, Pieter ^b,c   Naudet, Joris ^b,c   Van Ham, Ronald ^b,c   Lefeber, Dirk ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b IWT Vlaanderen ^*

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGIES; GAIT REHABILITATION; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LOWER LIMBS; MECHANICAL DESIGNS; MECHATRONICAL DESIGN; ORTHOSIS; PNEUMATIC ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES; PROOF OF CONCEPTS; REHABILITATION ROBOTICS; REHABILITATION ROBOTS;

AUTOMATION; PNEUMATIC DRIVES; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

PATIENT REHABILITATION;

EID: 48349103449     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICORR.2007.4428413     Document Type: Conference Paper

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