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The New Generation of Compliant Actuators for Use in Controllable Bio-Inspired Wearable Robots

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In this paper, a conceptual design of the two iterations of compliant actuators used within BioMot project, as well as the control strategy used to operate these actuators, is presented. The result of the presented approach are 2 exoskeleton gait prototypes that will be used for incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI) patients’ gait rehabilitation.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by the EC’s 7th Framework Program as part of the project BioMot (Grant Agreement number IFP7-ICT-2013-10-611695).

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, R&MM Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), 1050, Brussel, Belgium

    T. Bacek, M. Moltedo & D. Lefeber

  2. Bioengineering Group, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientficas (CSIC), 28500, Madrid, Spain

    J. Gonzalez-Vargas, G. Asin Prieto, M. C. Sanchez-Villamañan & J. C. Moreno

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  1. Spanish National Research Council, Cajal Institute Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain

    José González-Vargas

  2. Spanish National Research Council, Cajal Institute Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain

    Jaime Ibáñez

  3. Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering, Houston, Texas, USA

    Jose L. Contreras-Vidal

  4. University of Twente , Enschede, The Netherlands

    Herman van der Kooij

  5. Spanish National Research Council, Cajal Institute Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain

    José Luis Pons

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Bacek, T. et al. (2017). The New Generation of Compliant Actuators for Use in Controllable Bio-Inspired Wearable Robots. In: González-Vargas, J., Ibáñez, J., Contreras-Vidal, J., van der Kooij, H., Pons, J. (eds) Wearable Robotics: Challenges and Trends. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46532-6_42

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