Currently transfemoral prostheses are almost exclusively passive such that the user spends up to 60% of additional metabolic energy with respect to a healthy person. This contribution introduces the design of an active prosthesis whose interface is driven by an adaptive oscillator (AO).
Everarts, C., Thissen, A., Dehez, B., Ijspeert, A. J., & Ronsse, R. (2011). Control and Design of an Active Prosthesis Based on Adaptive Oscillators. 10th Belgian Day on Biomedical Engineering, Brussels. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/159374