Simulation of Performance Enhancement of Bi-Lateral Lower-Limb Amputees Through Impulse Synchronisation with Self Selected Running Step Frequency

• Main Authors: Noroozi, Siamak, Abdul Ghaffar, Abdul Rahman, Vinney, John, Ong, Zhi Chao, Khoo, Shin Yee
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/4014/1/Keynote_Speaker01.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/4014/

Current method of enhancing the performance of a bilateral amputee runners using energy return prosthesis is rarely linked to the system dynamics. In this paper a simple simulation is used to show that if a self selected running step frequency could be synchronized with dynamic elastic response of a...