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This paper describes the role played by skeletal and musculo-skeletal modeling and analysis in: (i) the customization of low-cost active knee-ankle-foot orthoses aimed at assisting the gait of spinal-cord-injured subjects possessing some level of hip actuation; (ii) the adaptation process of the patients to the devices. It is shown that personalized multibody-based human models and related methods and techniques are very helpful for motor-gearbox selection and swing motion definition, for monitoring progress during the training sessions, for evaluating the final outcome provided by the assistive devices, and for anticipating their long-term impact on the patient’s health.
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This work was funded by the Spanish MINECO under project DPI2015-65959-C3-1-R, cofinanced by the EU through the EFRD program, and by the Galician Government under grant ED431B2016/031.
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Cuadrado, J., Lugris, U., Mouzo, F., Michaud, F. (2019). Musculo-skeletal Modeling and Analysis for Low-Cost Active Orthosis Customization and SCI Patient Adaptation. In: Zahariev, E., Cuadrado, J. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Intelligent Multibody Systems – Dynamics, Control, Simulation. IUTAM Bookseries, vol 33. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00527-6_2
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