A lightweight soft exosuit for gait assistance

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3362-3369

  Wehner, Michael ^a   Quinlivan, Brendan ^a   Aubin, Patrick M ^a   Martinez Villalpando, Ernesto ^a   Baumann, Michael ^a   Stirling, Leia ^a   Holt, Kenneth ^a   Wood, Robert ^a,b   Walsh, Conor ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTACHMENT POINTS; HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS; HUMAN INTERFACE; JOINT KINEMATICS; MCKIBBEN ACTUATORS; MECHANICAL IMPEDANCES; PNEUMATIC ACTUATION; ULTRA LIGHTWEIGHTS;

JOINTS (ANATOMY); KINEMATICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; ROBOTICS;

PNEUMATIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 84887279903     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6631046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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