Soft robot for gait rehabilitation of spinalized rodents

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 971-976

  Song, Yun Seong ^a   Sun, Yi ^a   Van Den Brand, Rubia ^a   Von Zitzewitz, Joachim ^a   Micera, Silvestro ^a   Courtine, Gregoire ^a   Paik, Jamie ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; BIOMEDICAL USE; CUSTOMIZABILITY; GAIT REHABILITATION; ROBOTIC SYSTEM DESIGN; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SOFT ACTUATORS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MAMMALS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PNEUMATIC ACTUATORS; PNEUMATIC EQUIPMENT;

PATIENT REHABILITATION;

EID: 84893714944     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696468     Document Type: Conference Paper

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