Design and control of a bio-inspired soft wearable robotic device for ankle-foot rehabilitation

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Park, Yong Lae ^a   Chen, Bor Rong ^b   Pérez Arancibia, Néstor O ^c   Young, Diana ^d,e   Stirling, Leia ^f   Wood, Robert J ^d,e   Goldfield, Eugene C ^e,g   Nagpal, Radhika ^d,e  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Biosensics LLC   (United States)

^c University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^g BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

active orthosis; bio inspired robotics; feedback control; pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs); soft robotics; soft sensors; wearable robotics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FOOT ORTHOSIS; HARDNESS; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC GAIT DISORDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FOOT ORTHOSES; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HARDNESS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ROBOTICS; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84894580176     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3182/9/1/016007     Document Type: Article

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