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Personal Lower Limb Rehabilitation Robot for Children

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Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 317))

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The article describes the process of developing a concept, design and building a working lower limb rehabilitation device with comparison to other existing systems. The described robot was designed primarily for rehabilitation of children with cerebral palsy (and other illnesses that need constant, long term rehabilitation).

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  1. AGH University of Science and Technology, 30 Mickiewicza Av., 30-059, Krakow, Poland

    Mariusz Giergiel, Aleksander Budziński, Grzegorz Piątek & Michał Wacławski

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  1. Mariusz Giergiel
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  2. Aleksander Budziński
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  3. Grzegorz Piątek
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Correspondence to Mariusz Giergiel .

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  1. Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland

    Jan Awrejcewicz

  2. Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP, Warsaw, Poland

    Roman Szewczyk

  3. Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP, Warsaw, Poland

    Maciej Trojnacki

  4. Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP, Warsaw, Poland

    Małgorzata Kaliczyńska

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Giergiel, M., Budziński, A., Piątek, G., Wacławski, M. (2015). Personal Lower Limb Rehabilitation Robot for Children. In: Awrejcewicz, J., Szewczyk, R., Trojnacki, M., Kaliczyńska, M. (eds) Mechatronics - Ideas for Industrial Application. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 317. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10990-9_17

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