Intelligently controllable Ankle Foot Orthosis (I-AFO) and its application for a patient of Guillain-Barre syndrome

2009 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 857-862

  Tanida, Sosuke ^a,b   Kikuchi, Takehito ^a   Kakehashi, Taigo ^a   Otsuki, Kikuko ^a   Ozawa, Takuya ^a   Fujikawa, Takamitsu ^c   Yasuda, Takashi ^b   Furusho, Junji ^a   Morimoto, Shoji ^d   Hashimoto, Yasunori ^e  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Shiga School of Medical Technology   (Japan)

^c BUKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OSAKA ELECTRO COMMUNICATION UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Hashimoto Artificial Limb Manufacture Co   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKLE-FOOT ORTHOSIS; CONTROL TESTS; DISABLED PEOPLE; FOOT ORTHOSE; GAIT CONTROL; MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL FLUIDS; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PERONEAL NERVE; PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

FRICTION MATERIALS; ORTHOTICS; PATIENT REHABILITATION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 70449368975     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209590     Document Type: Conference Paper

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