Biomechanical design of a powered ankle-foot prosthesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 298-303

  Au, Samuel K ^a   Weber, Jeff ^b   Herr, Hugh ^c  

^a USA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; AUTOMATION; BIOMECHANICS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; ROBOTICS;

BIOMECHANICAL DESIGN; DESIGN CHALLENGES; INSTANTANEOUS POWER; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; REHABILITATION ROBOTICS;

PROSTHETICS;

EID: 48349117213     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICORR.2007.4428441     Document Type: Conference Paper

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