An elastic exoskeleton for assisting human running

Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference 2009, DETC2009

Volumn 7, Issue PART B, 2010, Pages 727-738

  Cherry, Michael S ^a   Kota, Sridhar ^a   Ferris, Daniel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN MODELS; FINITE ELEMENT; HUMAN LEGS; KNEE JOINT; LEG STIFFNESS; MULTI-BODY; OVERALL STIFFNESS; PNEUMATIC CYLINDERS; QUASI-STATIC MODEL; STANCE PHASE; SWING PHASE; SYSTEM STIFFNESS; TEST DATA;

CABLES; DESIGN; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; JOINTS (ANATOMY); LEAF SPRINGS;

STIFFNESS;

EID: 77953777879     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2009-87355     Document Type: Conference Paper

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