Biomechanical and physiological effects of an upper-body exoskeleton during simulated load-carrying on an inclined surface

• Gabriela Garcia ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mggarcia@usfq.edu.ec

  Affiliation Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial, Colegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5666-2156

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• Rafaella Yañez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rafaella Yañez, Milena Espoz, Camilo Albuja

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial, Colegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

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• Milena Espoz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rafaella Yañez, Milena Espoz, Camilo Albuja

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial, Colegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

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• Camilo Albuja ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Rafaella Yañez, Milena Espoz, Camilo Albuja

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial, Colegio de Ciencias e Ingenierías, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador

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• Paul G. Arauz ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ PGA and BJM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University, New York, United States of America

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• Bernard J. Martin

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ PGA and BJM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Michigan, United States of America

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