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McKibben Artificial Muscles - These pneumatic actuators provide a close analog to Nature's prime mover.

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Artificial Muscle Spindles - These mechatronic sensors mimic the natural analog, providing a highly sensitive, actively controlled measure of position and velocity.

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Powered Prosthetics Project

Lower limb amputees walk more slowly and use more metabolic energy than the rest of the population. This project seeks to test the idea that if we could add energy to an amputee's gait through a powered prosthesis, could an amputee walk farther and faster with less effort when compared to walking with a conventional prosthetic limb?

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Anthroform Arm Project

This area of research seeks to integrate multi-disciplinary motor control research through the synthesis of a robotic arm and controller based completely on known experimental data from human biomechanics and neurophysiology.


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