Cooperative control design for robot-assisted balance during gait

At-Automatisierungstechnik

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 715-720

  Vallery, Heike ^a   Bögel, Alexander ^b   O'Brien, Carolyn ^c   Riener, Robert ^d  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Stroppelstrasse 20 ^*  (Switzerland)

^c Badenerstr 141   (Switzerland)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Balance; Exoskeletons; Gait rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871518148     PISSN: 01782312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/auto.2012.1041     Document Type: Article

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