Powered knee orthosis for human gait rehabilitation: first advances

This paper presents a new system for a powered knee orthosis, that was designed to assist and improve the gait function of patients with gait pathologies. The system contains the orthotic device (embedded with sensors for angle and user-orthosis interaction torque measurements, and an electric actua...

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Main Author: Felix, Paulo (author)
Other Authors: Figueiredo, Joana (author), Santos, Cristina (author), Moreno, Juan C. (author)
Format: conferencePaper
Language:eng
Published: 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/71230
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/71230