Kinematic design optimization of a parallel ankle rehabilitation robot using modified genetic algorithm

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1018-1027

  Jamwal, Prashant Kumar ^a   Xie, Shengquan ^a   Aw, Kean C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ankle rehabilitation; Design optimization; Modified genetic algorithm; Soft parallel robot; Workspace analysis

Indexed keywords

ANKLE REHABILITATION; DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; MODIFIED GENETIC ALGORITHM; SOFT PARALLEL ROBOT; WORKSPACE ANALYSIS;

FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; KINEMATICS; OPTIMIZATION; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; ROBOTS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 70249086531     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2009.07.017     Document Type: Article

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