TY - GEN
T1 - Engineering evaluation of the energy-storing orthosis FES gait system
AU - Kangude, Abhijit
AU - Burgstahler, Brett
AU - Durfee, William
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - A system to restore walking in the vicinity of a wheelchair for people with paraplegia resulting from spinal cord injury is under development. The approach combines single channel surface electrical stimulation with an orthosis. The orthosis is spring loaded and contains a pneumatic system that stores energy during knee extension caused by quadriceps stimulation and transfers it to hip joint for hip extension. A laboratory version of the prototype of the gait system has been fabricated and engineering bench tests were performed. The paper presents the design of the wearable prototype and results of bench testing.
AB - A system to restore walking in the vicinity of a wheelchair for people with paraplegia resulting from spinal cord injury is under development. The approach combines single channel surface electrical stimulation with an orthosis. The orthosis is spring loaded and contains a pneumatic system that stores energy during knee extension caused by quadriceps stimulation and transfers it to hip joint for hip extension. A laboratory version of the prototype of the gait system has been fabricated and engineering bench tests were performed. The paper presents the design of the wearable prototype and results of bench testing.
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U2 - 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627550
DO - 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627550
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 21096941
AN - SCOPUS:78650807580
SN - 9781424441235
T3 - 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10
SP - 5927
EP - 5930
BT - 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology
PB - IEEE
T2 - 2010 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10
Y2 - 31 August 2010 through 4 September 2010
ER -