A gravity balancing passive exoskeleton for the human leg

Robotics: Science and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 185-189

  Agrawal, Sunil K ^a   Banala, Sai K ^a   Fattah, Abbas ^a   Scholz, John P ^b   Krishnamoorthy, Vijaya ^b   Hsu, Wei Li ^b  

^a Mechanical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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EID: 84959265366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2330765X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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