Wearable gait measurement system with an instrumented cane for exoskeleton control

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1705-1722

  Hassan, Modar ^a   Kadone, Hideki ^a   Suzuki, Kenji ^a,b   Sankai, Yoshiyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cane; Exoskeleton robot; Hemiplegia; Motion intention; Wearable sensors

Indexed keywords

INSTRUMENTS; ROBOTS; SENSORS; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

CANE; EXOSKELETON ROBOTS; HEMIPLEGIA; MOTION INTENTION; WEARABLE SENSORS;

WALKING AIDS;

EID: 84892597757     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s140101705     Document Type: Article

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