A study of a 4DOF upper-limb power-assist intelligent exoskeleton with visual information for perception-assist

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3666-3671

  Kiguchi, Kazuo ^a,b   Liyanage, Manoj ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; ROBOTICS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; UPPER LIMBS; VISUAL INFORMATIONS;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 51649099077     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543773     Document Type: Conference Paper

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