Wearable soft sensing suit for human gait measurement

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 33, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 1748-1764

  Mengüç, Yiʇit ^a,b   Park, Yong Lae ^c   Pei, Hao ^a,b   Vogt, Daniel ^a,b   Aubin, Patrick M ^a,b   Winchell, Ethan ^a   Fluke, Lowell ^a   Stirling, Leia ^d   Wood, Robert J ^a,b   Walsh, Conor J ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

motion capture; soft robotics; Soft sensors; wearable electronics; wearable robotics

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; JOINTS (ANATOMY); MEDICAL ROBOTICS; MOTION CAPTURE; ROBOTICS; UNLOADING; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

JOINT ANGLE MEASUREMENTS; MECHANICAL DURABILITY; MECHANICAL ROBUSTNESS; OPTICAL MOTION CAPTURE; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; SOFT ROBOTICS; SOFT SENSORS; WEARABLE ROBOTICS;

WEARABLE SENSORS;

EID: 84914125071     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: 17413176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0278364914543793     Document Type: Article

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