Preliminary assessment of the efficacy of supplementing knee extension capability in a lower limb exoskeleton with FES

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3360-3363

  Quintero, Hugo A ^a   Farris, Ryan J ^a   Ha, Kevin ^a   Goldfarb, Michael ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL APPROACH; CONTROL PERFORMANCE; ENERGY CONTRIBUTION; KNEE EXTENSION; KNEE JOINT; LOWER LIMB; PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT;

JOINTS (ANATOMY); MUSCLE;

TORQUE MOTORS;

ARTICLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; KNEE; LIMB PROSTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT;

EID: 84870833016     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346685     Document Type: Conference Paper

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