A Soft Robotic Glove for Hand Rehabilitation Using Pneumatic Actuators with Variable Stiffness
| Autor: | Yurong Song, Meng Fanchang, Fengyu Xu, Yiquan Guo, Xudong Cao |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Rehabilitation
Pneumatic actuator Computer science medicine.medical_treatment 0206 medical engineering Soft robotics Wearable computer Stiffness Mechanical engineering 02 engineering and technology Bending 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 020601 biomedical engineering Hardware_GENERAL medicine Robot medicine.symptom 0210 nano-technology Actuator ComputingMethodologies_COMPUTERGRAPHICS |
| Zdroj: | Intelligent Robotics and Applications ISBN: 9783030275341 ICIRA (3) |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-27535-8_12 |
| Popis: | Traditional rigid robots exist many problems in rehabilitation training. Soft robotics is conducive to breaking the limitations of rigid robots. This paper presents a soft wearable device for the rehabilitation of hands, including soft pneumatic actuators that are embedded in the device for motion assistance. The key feature of this design is the stiffness of each actuator at different positions is different, which results in the bending posture of the actuator is more accordant with the bending figure of human hand. In addition, another key point is the use of a fabric sleeves allow actuators to gain greater bending force when pressurized, which gives the hand greater bending force. We verified the feasibility of actuator through simulation, the performance of soft actuator and the device also are evaluated through experiments. Finally, the results show that this device can finish some of the hand rehabilitation tasks. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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