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A Compliant Lightweight and Adaptable Active Ankle Foot Orthosis for Robotic Rehabilitation

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This paper presents the design of a compliant, lightweight and adaptable active ankle foot orthosis (AAFO) and preliminary test of its ankle actuator. The ankle actuator is designed to keep its weight as low as possible. The adaptability of the AAFO allows adjusting the device to different patients, without the need of customized versions.

This work is supported by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Program as part of the project BioMot (Grant Agreement number IFP7-ICT-2013-10-611695), by the Flemish agency for Innovation by Science and Technology as part of the project MIRAD (IWT-SBO 120057) and by the FWO grant (no. G026214N).

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank MOBILAB @ Thomas More for the development of the carbon fiber foot plates.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Robotics & Multibody Mechanics Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1040, Brussel, Belgium

    Marta Moltedo, Tomislav Bacek, Kevin Langlois, Karen Junius, Bram Vanderborght & Dirk Lefeber

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Correspondence to Marta Moltedo .

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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

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

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Moltedo, M., Bacek, T., Langlois, K., Junius, K., Vanderborght, B., Lefeber, D. (2017). A Compliant Lightweight and Adaptable Active Ankle Foot Orthosis for Robotic Rehabilitation. 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_8

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