A University of Texas at Dallas professor applied robot control theory to enable powered prosthetics to dynamically respond to the wearer’s environment and help amputees walk. In research available online and in an upcoming print issue of IEEE Transactions on Robotics (“Virtual Constraint Control of a Powered Prosthetic Leg: From Simulation to Experiments With Transfemoral Amputees”), wearers of the robotic leg could walk on a moving treadmill almost as fast as an able-bodied person.
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