TY - GEN
T1 - Development of pneumatic myoelectric hand with simple motion selection
AU - Nishikawa, Kotaro
AU - Shakutsui, Masayuki
AU - Hirata, Kentaro
AU - Takaiwa, Masahiro
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Of the 82 thousand upper-extremity amputees in our country, the majority use prosthetic hands. Recently, research and development of myoelectric hand have come to the forefront. However, due to the usage of multiple electric actuators, the myoelectric hand is heavy, structurally complicated and expensive. Thus, the authors propose a pneumatically-driven prosthetic hand with bellows incorporated in the joint. This grip force exceeds that of general pneumatically-driven prosthetic hands. Also it is lightweight of 240 g, reducing user fatigue. The hand’s control performance showed quick response to the reference angle and pressure. Moreover, this prosthetic hand enables grasping, pinching, and typing by simple motion selection although it is not equipped with motion estimation.
AB - Of the 82 thousand upper-extremity amputees in our country, the majority use prosthetic hands. Recently, research and development of myoelectric hand have come to the forefront. However, due to the usage of multiple electric actuators, the myoelectric hand is heavy, structurally complicated and expensive. Thus, the authors propose a pneumatically-driven prosthetic hand with bellows incorporated in the joint. This grip force exceeds that of general pneumatically-driven prosthetic hands. Also it is lightweight of 240 g, reducing user fatigue. The hand’s control performance showed quick response to the reference angle and pressure. Moreover, this prosthetic hand enables grasping, pinching, and typing by simple motion selection although it is not equipped with motion estimation.
KW - Bellows
KW - Motion selection
KW - Myoelectric hand
KW - Pneumatic
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-43518-3_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-43518-3_15
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84981294553
SN - 9783319435176
VL - 9835
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 147
EP - 157
BT - Intelligent Robotics and Applications - 9th International Conference, ICIRA 2016, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 9th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2016
Y2 - 22 August 2016 through 24 August 2016
ER -