Bracing the human body with supernumerary Robotic Limbs for physical assistance and load reduction

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 141-148

  Parietti, Federico ^a   Chan, Kameron ^a   Asada, H Harry ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; EXOSKELETON (ROBOTICS); NUMERICAL METHODS; ROBOTICS;

JOINT TORQUES; LEG EXOSKELETON; LOAD REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NEW APPROACHES; SINGULAR CONFIGURATIONS; SUPERNUMERARY ROBOTIC LIMBS; WEARABLE ROBOTS;

JOINTS (ANATOMY);

EID: 84929177589     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6906601     Document Type: Conference Paper

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