Rehabilitation control strategies for a gait robot via EMG evaluation

2009 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 86-91

  Wang, Ping ^a   McGregor, A H ^b   Tow, Adela ^c   Lim, H B ^a   Khang, L S ^a   Low, K H ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Control strategy; EMG; Evaluation; Gait device; Robotic rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGY; EMG; EVALUATION; GAIT DEVICE; ROBOTIC REHABILITATION;

PATIENT REHABILITATION; ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 70449378622     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209554     Document Type: Conference Paper

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