Leslie Gray received her B.S. degree (2002) in Prosthetics-Orthotics from UT Southwestern Medical Center, the M.Ed. degree (2007) in Instructional Technology from the University of Texas at Brownsville, and is board certified in orthotics (2003) and prosthetics (2004). She is an Assistant Professor and serves as Director of the Prosthetics-Orthotics Program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX.
This paper presents a potential solution to the challenge of configuring powered knee-ankle prostheses in a clinical setting. Typically, powered prostheses use impedance-based control schemes that contain several independent controllers which correspond to consecutive periods along the gait cycle. This...
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