Safe and compliant guidance by a powered knee exoskeleton for robot-assisted rehabilitation of gait

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 513-535

  Beyl, P ^a   Knaepen, K ^a   Duerinck, S ^a   Van Damme, M ^a   Vanderborght, B ^a   Meeusen, R ^a   Lefeber, D ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

physical human robot interaction; pneumatic muscles; powered knee exoskeleton; proxy based sliding mode control; Robot assisted gait rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ACTUATOR TECHNOLOGY; ACTUATOR TORQUES; CONTROL STRATEGIES; CONTROLLER TUNING; GAIT REHABILITATION; HIGH-TORQUE ACTUATORS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PILOT EXPERIMENT; PNEUMATIC ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; PNEUMATIC MUSCLE; POWERED KNEE EXOSKELETON; PROXY-BASED SLIDING MODE CONTROL; PROXY-BASED SLIDING MODE CONTROLS; RESEARCH FIELDS; ROBOT INTERACTIONS; ROBOT-ASSISTED REHABILITATION; TARGET TRAJECTORY; TEST RESULTS; TORQUE CONTROLLERS; TRAJECTORY-BASED; TREADMILL WALKING;

ACTUATORS; CONTROLLERS; EXPERIMENTS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MUSCLE; PATIENT REHABILITATION; PNEUMATIC CONTROL; PNEUMATIC EQUIPMENT; SLIDING MODE CONTROL;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 79953074497     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/016918611X558225     Document Type: Article

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