Augmenting Locomotion in an Anthropomorphic System

A powered orthosis has applications ranging from assisting the elderly to augmenting astronauts. An assistive control scheme is developed that uses the force from a slave actuator to augment the force of a master actuator. This can be used to augment a closed-loop control scheme applied to the maste...

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Main Authors: Derek Wight, Eric Kubica, David Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics 2005-02-01
Series:Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
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Online Access:http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/P367285.pdf

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