Design of a cable-driven active leg exoskeleton (C-ALEX) and gait training experiments with human subjects

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2015-June, Issue June, 2015, Pages 5578-5583

  Jin, Xin ^a   Cui, Xiang ^b   Agrawal, Sunil K ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; CABLES;

CABLE-DRIVEN; COMPLEX STRUCTURE; CONTROL STRATEGIES; GAIT TRAINING; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; HUMAN SUBJECTS; LEG EXOSKELETON; ROBOTIC REHABILITATION;

EXOSKELETON (ROBOTICS);

EID: 84938224962     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139979     Document Type: Conference Paper

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