Design of a fully-passive transfemoral prosthesis prototype

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 591-594

  Behrens, S M ^a   Unal, R ^a   Hekman, E E G ^a   Carloni, R ^a   Stramigioli, S ^a   Koopman, H F J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKLE JOINTS; DESIGN PARAMETERS; DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS; ENERGETIC COUPLING; ENERGY EFFICIENT; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN GAIT; MECHANICAL DESIGN; NORMAL WALKING; POWER FLOWS; TRANSFEMORAL PROSTHESIS; WORKING PRINCIPLES;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; JOINT PROSTHESES;

DESIGN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; GAIT; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; LEG; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GAIT; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; LEG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROSTHESIS DESIGN;

EID: 84861951857     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090111     Document Type: Conference Paper

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