Mechanical Design of a Modular-Adaptive Knee Active Orthosis

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This paper presents the design of a new modular-adaptive knee active orthosis (AKO). In order to design the proposed active orthosis a set of conditions were imposed taking into account the patients’ requirements. The virtual prototyping was realized using SolidWorks software. There are also presented the characteristics and the functionality of the orthosis.

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