Bio-inspired active soft orthotic device for ankle foot pathologies

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 4488-4495

  Park, Yong Lae ^a   Chen, Bor Rong ^b   Young, Diana ^a   Stirling, Leia ^a   Wood, Robert J ^a,b   Goldfield, Eugene ^a,c   Nagpal, Radhika ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKLE JOINTS; BIO-INSPIRED; CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; DORSIFLEXIONS; EMBEDDED SENSORS; GAIT PATTERN; GAIT TRAINING; HUMAN FOOT; KEY FEATURE; LOWER LEG; NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PNEUMATIC ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; SOFT MATERIAL;

BIPED LOCOMOTION; DISEASES; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MACHINE DESIGN; ORTHOPEDICS; ORTHOTICS; PATHOLOGY; PNEUMATIC DRIVES; PNEUMATICS; ROBOTICS;

MUSCLE;

EID: 84455192867     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2011.6048620     Document Type: Conference Paper

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