Design and Control of a New Biomimetic Transfemoral Knee Prosthesis Using an Echo-Control Scheme

Passive knee prostheses require a significant amount of additional metabolic energy to carry out a gait cycle, therefore affecting the natural human walk performance. Current active knee prostheses are still limited because they do not reply with accuracy of the natural human knee movement, and the...

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Main Authors: Mario G. Bernal-Torres, Hugo I. Medellín-Castillo, Juan C. Arellano-González
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2018-01-01
Series:Journal of Healthcare Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/8783642