Vanessa Lara de Araújo received the bachelor’s degree in physiotherapy and the master’s degree in rehabilitation sciences from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 2008 and 2013, respectively. She is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in rehabilitation sciences at UFMG.
During 2014, she was a Visiting Student at Wyss Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Her research interests include biomechanics, locomotion, and motor control.
To understand the effects of soft exosuits on human loaded walking, we developed a reconfigurable multi-joint actuation platform that can provide synchronized forces to the ankle and hip joints. Two different assistive strategies were evaluated on eight subjects walking on...
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