Electromyography-based control of active above-knee prostheses

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 875-882

  Wu, Sai Kit ^a   Waycaster, Garrett ^a   Shen, Xiangrong ^a  

^a University of Alabama   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical system; Impedance control; Medical applications; Neural control

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTROL; ACTUATION MECHANISM; BIOLOGICAL JOINTS; BIOMEDICAL SYSTEMS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; CONTROL APPROACH; CONTROL PROCESS; CONTROL STRUCTURE; EMG SIGNAL; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; IMPEDANCE CONTROL; JOINT IMPEDANCE; JOINT MOTION; LEVEL WALKING; LOWER LIMB; NATURAL INTERACTIONS; NEURAL CONTROL; NEURAL SIGNALS; NON-INTRUSIVE; SURFACE EMG; WALKING GAIT;

ALGORITHMS; EXPERIMENTS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MUSCLE;

JOINT PROSTHESES;

EID: 79959766072     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2011.04.017     Document Type: Article

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