Rehabilitation exoskeleton design: Exploring the effect of the anterior lunge degree of freedom

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 838-846

  Stegall, Paul ^a   Winfree, Kyle ^b   Zanotto, Damiano ^b   Agrawal, Sunil Kumar ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Exoskeletons; gait training; lunge degree of freedom

Indexed keywords

BETTER PERFORMANCE; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; EXOSKELETONS; GAIT TRAINING; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; LEG EXOSKELETON; OPTIMAL DESIGN; ROBOTIC EXOSKELETONS;

ROBOTICS;

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS);

EID: 84881552102     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2013.2256309     Document Type: Article

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