Concept design of hybrid-actuated lower limb exoskeleton to reduce the metabolic cost of walking with heavy loads

• Qiaoling Meng,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Rehabilitation Engineering and Technology, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Assistive Devices, Shanghai, China, Key Laboratory of Neural-Functional Information and Rehabilitation Engineering of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Shanghai, China

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• Bolei Kong,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Institute of Rehabilitation Engineering and Technology, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Assistive Devices, Shanghai, China, Key Laboratory of Neural-Functional Information and Rehabilitation Engineering of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Shanghai, China

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• Qingxin Zeng,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliations Institute of Rehabilitation Engineering and Technology, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Assistive Devices, Shanghai, China, Key Laboratory of Neural-Functional Information and Rehabilitation Engineering of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Shanghai, China

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• Cuizhi Fei,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliations Institute of Rehabilitation Engineering and Technology, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Assistive Devices, Shanghai, China, Key Laboratory of Neural-Functional Information and Rehabilitation Engineering of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Shanghai, China

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• Hongliu Yu

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

  * E-mail: yhl_usst@outlook.com

  Affiliations Institute of Rehabilitation Engineering and Technology, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Assistive Devices, Shanghai, China, Key Laboratory of Neural-Functional Information and Rehabilitation Engineering of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Shanghai, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2812-1192

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