Biomechanics, actuation, and multi-level control strategies of power-augmentation lower extremity exoskeletons: an overview

Hayder F. N. Al-Shuka1, Mohammad Habibur Rahman2, Steffen Leonhardt3, Ileana Ciobanu4, Mihai Berteanu4
1School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, China
2Mechanical/Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA
3The Philips Chair for Medical Information Technology (MedIT), Helmholtz-Institute for Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
4Rehabilitation Medicine Department, Elias University Hospital, Bucharest, Romania

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