A 4-bar mechanism based for knee assist robotic exoskeleton using singular configuration

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 674-680

  Noh, J ^a   Kwon, J ^a   Yang, W ^a   Oh, Y ^b   Bae, J H ^c  

^a Kwangwoon University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c Robotics R and D Group   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Exoskeleton; Mechanism; Physical Human Robot Interaction; Sereis elastic actuator

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010065544     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2016.7793059     Document Type: Conference Paper

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