Deberg, LibertyTaheri Andani, MasoodHosseinipour, MiladElahinia, Mohammad2018-04-302018-04-302014-06-02Liberty Deberg, Masood Taheri Andani, Milad Hosseinipour, and Mohammad Elahinia, “An SMA Passive Ankle Foot Orthosis: Design, Modeling, and Experimental Evaluation,” Smart Materials Research, vol. 2014, Article ID 572094, 11 pages, 2014. doi:10.1155/2014/572094http://hdl.handle.net/10919/82945Shape memory alloys (SMAs) provide compact and effective actuation for avariety of mechanical systems. In this work, the distinguished superelastic behavior of these materials is utilized to develop a passive ankle foot orthosis to address the drop foot disability. Design, modeling, and experimental evaluation of an SMA orthosis employed in an ankle foot orthosis (AFO) are presented in this paper. To evaluate the improvements achieved with this new device, a prototype is fabricated and motion analysis is performed on a drop foot patient. Results are presented to demonstrate the performance of the proposed orthosis.application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalArticle - Refereed2018-04-29Copyright © 2014 Liberty Deberg et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/572094