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Passive Swing Assistive Exoskeletons for Motor-Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury Patients

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Passive Swing Assistive Exoskeletons for Motor-Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury Patients
—In this paper, we present a passive device for swing assistance of motor-incomplete spinal cord injury patients. This device is aimed at reducing the physical demands on the therapists during treadmill training. We model the human leg as two links and a point foot mass, with a moving trunk. We employ passive elements in the design which get charged by the treadmill. Using the system dynamics, we optimize the design parameters to obtain a feasible swing motion of the leg. An exoskeleton was constructed based on these design parameters and tests were performed on a healthy subject at different treadmill speeds.
Kalyan K. Mankala, Sai K. Banala, Sunil Kumar Agra
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Type Conference
Year 2007
Where ICRA
Authors Kalyan K. Mankala, Sai K. Banala, Sunil Kumar Agrawal
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