Fast and accurate gait phase detection is essential to achieve effective powered lower-limb
prostheses and exoskeletons. As the versatility but also the complexity of these robotic …

Background Enhancing the quality of life of people with a lower limb amputation is critical in
prosthetic development and rehabilitation. Yet, no overview is available concerning the …

In individuals with lower-limb amputations, robotic prostheses can increase walking speed,
and reduce energy use, the incidence of falls and the development of secondary …

Transtibial prostheses play an important role in below-knee amputees' daily activities. Our
previous study presented a lightweight prosthesis with damping behaviors, which can adapt …

Abstract The Ankle Mimicking Prosthetic Foot 3 is an energy efficient bionic foot using the
principle of optimal power distribution. The main challenge behind this research is focused …

The last decades, rehabilitation has become a challenging context for mechatronical
engineering. From the state-of-the-art it is seen that the field of prosthetics offers very …

Several works have shown that series and parallel elasticity can reduce peak power and
energy consumption in prosthetic ankles. Setting the right stiffness of the elastic elements is …

Ankle inversion-eversion compliance is an important feature of conventional prosthetic feet,
and control of inversion, or roll, in active prostheses could improve balance for people with …

Driven by the desire of amputees to reduce their physical shortcomings, prosthetic feet
evolved from passive to propulsive bionic feet, actuated by different types of compliant …

Objective Unilateral trans-tibial amputation signifies a challenge to locomotion. Prosthetic
ankle-foot units are developed to mimic the missing biological system which adapts push-off …