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From the perspective of human mobility, a loss of lower limb create a barrier that restricts normal functionality in society. In such situation, man must learn how to live with this disability. The main target of this research was to design and create an artificial lower limb with active movement support in a knee joint. The authors of the article had made an attempt to work out a simple construction of an active artificial lower limb for the people with amputated lower limb above the knee joint. The most crucial part of this paper was the design and model of an active artificial limb which would allow people with amputated lower limb above the knee joint to move.
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Zawiski, M., Paśniczek, R. (2014). Active Artificial Lower Limb. In: Březina, T., Jabloński, R. (eds) Mechatronics 2013. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02294-9_106
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