Self-aligning exoskeleton axes through decoupling of joint rotations and translations

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 628-633

  Stienen, Arno H A ^a,b   Hekman, Edsko E G ^a   van der Helm, Frans C T ^a,c   van der Kooij, Herman ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Exoskeleton; Kinematics; Mechanism design; Physical human robot interaction; Rehabilitation robotics; Upper limb

Indexed keywords

EXOSKELETON; MECHANISM DESIGN; PHYSICAL HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION; REHABILITATION ROBOTICS; UPPER LIMB;

JOINTS (ANATOMY); KINEMATICS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MECHANISMS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; ROTATION; TOOLS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 67649250005     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2009.2019147     Document Type: Article

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