Influence of parallel spring-loaded exoskeleton on ankle muscle-tendon dynamics during simulated human hopping

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 583-586

  Robertson, Benjamin D ^a   Sawicki, Gregory S ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE COMPONENTS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERS; COUPLED SYSTEMS; HUMAN LOCOMOTIONS; MECHANICAL POWER; MUSCLE ACTIVATION; PARAMETER SPACES; POWER PRODUCTION; SPRING STIFFNESS; SYSTEM DYNAMICS;

BIOMECHANICS; STIFFNESS; TENDONS; WALKING AIDS;

MUSCLE;

ACHILLES TENDON; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; ORTHOTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; ORTHOSIS;

ACHILLES TENDON; ANKLE JOINT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; ROBOTICS; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84861932970     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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