Constraint Study for a Hand Exoskeleton: Human Hand Kinematics and Dynamics

Autor: Fai Chen Chen, Silvia Appendino, Alessandro Battezzato, Alain Favetto, Mehdi Mousavi, Francesco Pescarmona
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Journal of Robotics, Vol 2013 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1687-9600
1687-9619
DOI: 10.1155/2013/910961
Popis: In the last few years, the number of projects studying the human hand from the robotic point of view has increased rapidly, due to the growing interest in academic and industrial applications. Nevertheless, the complexity of the human hand given its large number of degrees of freedom (DoF) within a significantly reduced space requires an exhaustive analysis, before proposing any applications. The aim of this paper is to provide a complete summary of the kinematic and dynamic characteristics of the human hand as a preliminary step towards the development of hand devices such as prosthetic/robotic hands and exoskeletons imitating the human hand shape and functionality. A collection of data and constraints relevant to hand movements is presented, and the direct and inverse kinematics are solved for all the fingers as well as the dynamics; anthropometric data and dynamics equations allow performing simulations to understand the behavior of the finger.
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