Variable Stiffness Structure for limb attachment

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URI: https://hdl.handle.net/11556/2818
ISSN: 1945-7898
ISBN: 9781424498628
DOI: 10.1109/ICORR.2011.5975350
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2011
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In robotic rehabilitation, the way of attaching the robotic device to the users' limb constitutes a crucial element of product quality, particularly for assuring good fitting, comfort, accuracy, usability, and safety. In this article, we present a new technological concept - 'Variable Stiffness Structure' - allowing for an improvement of these aspects in the 'robotic device to limb' - connection by offering a compound of materials that are together able to switch from a flexible textile-like state to a more rigid state by applying negative pressure. The paper describes the concept and the basic behaviour of the material, based on experiments.
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body fitting element , limb connection , robotic rehabilitation , Control and Systems Engineering , Rehabilitation , Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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Bureau , M , Keller , T , Perry , J , Velik , R & Veneman , J F 2011 , Variable Stiffness Structure for limb attachment . in 2011 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2011 - Rehab Week Zurich 2011 . , 5975350 , IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics , Rehab Week Zurich 2011 - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2011 , Zurich , Switzerland , 27/06/11 . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICORR.2011.5975350
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