Design and control of a lower limb exoskeleton for robot-assisted gait training

Applied Bionics and Biomechanics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 229-243

  Beyl, Pieter ^a   van Damme, Michäl ^a   van Ham, Ronald ^a   Vanderborght, Bram ^a   Lefeber, Dirk ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Compliant actuator; Powered exoskeleton; Proxy based sliding mode control; Robot assisted gait rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; EXOSKELETON (ROBOTICS); JOINTS (ANATOMY); MACHINE DESIGN; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MUSCLE; PATIENT REHABILITATION; PNEUMATIC DRIVES; PNEUMATICS; ROBOTS; SLIDING MODE CONTROL; WALKING AIDS;

COMPLIANT ACTUATOR; EVALUATION OF DESIGNS; GAIT REHABILITATION; PHYSICAL HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTIONS; PNEUMATIC ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; PROXY-BASED SLIDING MODE CONTROLS; ROBOT-ASSISTED REHABILITATION; SLIDING MODE CONTROLLER;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 75149136479     PISSN: 11762322     EISSN: 17542103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11762320902784393     Document Type: Article

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