An SMA Passive Ankle Foot Orthosis: Design, Modeling, and Experimental Evaluation

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="572094.fig.007a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/smr/volume-2014/572094/figures/572094.fig.007a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>Bose machine and environmental chamber</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="572094.fig.007b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/smr/volume-2014/572094/figures/572094.fig.007b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>Temperature measurement setup</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Test setup for the model verification experiments during the experiments the environmental chamber is closed with an optical window for the IR camera.</table>

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Figure 7: An SMA Passive Ankle Foot Orthosis: Design, Modeling, and Experimental Evaluation 