Mechanical design of a portable knee-ankle-foot robot

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2183-2188

  Yu, Haoyong ^a   Cruz, Manolo Sta ^b   Chen, Gong ^a   Huang, Sunan ^a   Zhu, Chi ^c   Chew, Effie ^d   Ng, Yee Sien ^e   Thakor, Nitish V ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Hope First Response Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

^c MAEBASHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

^e SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED COMPOSITE MATERIALS; ANKLE JOINTS; BIOMECHANICAL STUDIES; LIGHT WEIGHT; MECHANICAL DESIGN; MECHANISM DESIGN; MODULAR DESIGNS; ROBOT GAITS;

ACTUATORS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; ROBOTICS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 84887309989     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630870     Document Type: Conference Paper

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