Design and control of a parallel robot for ankle rehabilitation

International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 100-113

  Tsoi, Y H ^a   Xie, S Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

impedance control; parallel robots; redundant actuation; rehabilitation robots; singularity analysis; workspace analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751695472     PISSN: 17408865     EISSN: 17408873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISTA.2010.030193     Document Type: Article

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