Design and Control of Transfemoral Powered Prosthesis

An impedance-based control strategy to enable a user to walk at a pre-defined speed on the treadmill using a two degree of freedom transfemoral prosthesis with powered knee and ankle joints is presented. The strategy is based on segmenting level walking gait into four distinct modes or finite states...

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Main Author: Bohara, Amit
Other Authors: Michael Goldfarb
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: VANDERBILT 2006
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Online Access:http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-12012006-113427/