Exoskeletons for gait assistance and training of the motor-impaired

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1108-1113

  Agrawal, Sunil K ^a   Banala, Sai K ^a   Mankala, Kalyan ^a   Sangwan, Vivek ^a   Scholz, John P ^a   Krishnamoorthy, Vijaya ^a   Hsu, Wei Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MOTORS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

GRAVITY BALANCING; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; KNEE JOINTS; LOWER EXTREMITY; ORTHOSIS; POSITION SENSORS; REHABILITATION ROBOTICS; TREADMILL WALKING; UPPER EXTREMITIES;

JOINTS (ANATOMY);

EID: 48349135077     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICORR.2007.4428562     Document Type: Conference Paper

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