Autonomous exoskeleton reduces metabolic cost of human walking during load carriage

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Mooney, Luke M ^a,b   Rouse, Elliott J ^b   Herr, Hugh M ^b,c  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMOUS LEG EXOSKELETON; CALIBRATION; CONTROL STRATEGY; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY COST; ENERGY RESOURCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG EXOSKELETON; MALE; METABOLIC RATE; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SENSOR; STANDING; TREADMILL; WALKING; WEIGHT BEARING; BIOMECHANICS; ENERGY METABOLISM; EQUIPMENT; ORTHOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; ROBOTICS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; YOUNG ADULT;

BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; ENERGY METABOLISM; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; ROBOTICS; WALKING; WEIGHT-BEARING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901689431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17430003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-0003-11-80     Document Type: Article

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