Feasibility Study of a Wearable Exoskeleton for Children: Is the Gait Altered by Adding Masses on Lower Limbs?

• Stefano Rossi ,

  * E-mail: stefano.rossi@unitus.it

  Affiliations DEIM Department of Economics and Management – Industrial Engineering, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy, MARLab Movement Analysis and Robotics Laboratory – Neuroscience and Neurorehabilitation Department, “Bambino Gesù” Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy

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• Alessandra Colazza,

  Affiliation MARLab Movement Analysis and Robotics Laboratory – Neuroscience and Neurorehabilitation Department, “Bambino Gesù” Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy

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• Maurizio Petrarca,

  Affiliation MARLab Movement Analysis and Robotics Laboratory – Neuroscience and Neurorehabilitation Department, “Bambino Gesù” Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy

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• Enrico Castelli,

  Affiliation MARLab Movement Analysis and Robotics Laboratory – Neuroscience and Neurorehabilitation Department, “Bambino Gesù” Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy

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• Paolo Cappa,

  Affiliations MARLab Movement Analysis and Robotics Laboratory – Neuroscience and Neurorehabilitation Department, “Bambino Gesù” Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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• Hermano Igo Krebs

  Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Neurology and Division of Rehabilitative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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