Effects of robotic knee exoskeleton on human energy expenditure

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1636-1644

  Gams, Andrej ^a,b   Petric, Tadej ^a   Debevec, Tadej ^a   Babic, Jan ^a  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptive control; exoskeletons; metabolic cost; oscillators; squatting

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL; EXOSKELETON MECHANISM; EXOSKELETONS; GRAVITY COMPENSATION; METABOLIC COST; NON-INVASIVE CONTROLS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SQUATTING;

COSTS; METABOLISM; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); OXYGENATION;

ROBOTICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; GRAVITY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LUNG MINUTE VOLUME; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATOR; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; ROBOTIC EXOSKELETON; ROBOTIC KNEE EXOSKELETON;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENERGY METABOLISM; EXERCISE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; KNEE; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MOVEMENT; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RESPIRATORY RATE; ROBOTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TORQUE;

EID: 84877897716     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2240682     Document Type: Article

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