Rehabilitation walker system for standing-up motion

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3367-3372

  Chugo, Daisuke ^a   Matsuoka, Wataru ^b   Jia, Songmin ^a   Takase, Kunikatsu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MANIPULATORS; MECHANISMS; NURSING; ROBOTICS;

STANDING-UP;

CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 51349165384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2007.4399079     Document Type: Conference Paper

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