Series elastic actuator control of a powered exoskeleton

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3515-3518

  Ragonesi, Daniel ^a   Agrawal, Sunil ^a   Sample, Whitney ^c   Rahman, Tariq ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL LAWS; GRAVITY-BALANCING; JOINT TORQUES; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; ORTHOSIS; RESIDUAL FORCES; SERIES ELASTIC ACTUATORS; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; TORSIONAL SPRINGS; UPPER EXTREMITY;

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

ACTUATORS;

ARM; ARTICLE; ELASTICITY; GRAVITY; HUMAN; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

ARM; ELASTICITY; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN;

EID: 84862628117     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090583     Document Type: Conference Paper

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