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The existing passive foot prostheses do not contain all the joints of the foot, so they cannot fully simulate the natural human gait. They can induce various secondary injuries and require extra energy consumption in amputee patients. In this study, a new manufacturing design was used to develop a passive ankle-foot prosthesis, which was used to retain every joint of the foot as far as possible by flexible connections to reproduce the complete mechanical and kinematic performance of the ankle joint. After testing on healthy subjects, using the VICON MX system to capture the motion of the markers, and inserting the data into the OpenSim system to perform musculoskeletal model-driven calculations, the results show that the mechanical and kinematic properties of the ankle joint of the prosthesis were similar to those of a healthy limb, and the performance was greatly improved. Future work includes continuing to test the mechanical and kinematic properties of other joints in the foot, enhancing the mechanical properties of 3D printed materials, and inviting amputees for more comprehensive wearable testing.
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Jin, J. et al. (2022). A New 3D Printed Passive Flexible Prosthesis Based on the Human Foot. In: Liu, H., et al. Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13458. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13841-6_60
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