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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jun 23.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Int Conf Rehabil Robot. 2009 Jun 23;2009:638–644. doi: 10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209625

Table III.

Impedance parameters for treadmill walking from experimental tuning

Knee Impedance Ankle Impedance
Phase Speed km
k Nm
b N·s
θk deg k Nm
b N·s
θk deg
h deg m deg m
0 2.2 1.5 0 10 3.5 0 −4.4
2.8 1.5 0 10 3.5 0 −4.4
3.4 1.5 0 10 3.5 0 −4.4

1 2.2 1.5 0 10 3.5 0 −4.4
2.8 1.5 0 13 3.5 0 −4.4
3.4 2.0 0 13 4.0 0 −4.4

2 2.2 1.5 0.05 16 3.5 0 − 18
2.8 1.5 0.05 16 4.0 0 − 19
3.4 2.0 0.05 16 4.5 0 − 20

3 2.2 0 0.01 50 0.3 0.02 0
2.8 0 0.01 50 0.3 0.02 0
3.4 0 0.01 50 0.3 0.02 0

4 2.2 0 0.045 45 0.3 0 0
2.8 0 0.035 45 0.3 0 0
3.4 0 0.04 45 0.3 0 0

Highlighted parameters vary with walking speed