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X-Limb: A Soft Prosthetic Hand with User-Friendly Interface

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Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation III (ICNR 2018)

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Abstract

We have developed a soft prosthetic hand with features addressing the need of upper-limb amputees using soft robotics techniques. The designed hand is ultra-light and easy to manufacture. It is readily customisable for different hand size due to parameterised CAD design and using 3D printing techniques. The user-friendly control of the hand is achieved by using combination of designed-in behaviour of the finger and optimised movement of the fingers. This enables users to grasp a wide range of objects in one specific hand preshape eliminating the need for multiple switching between different grasps. The performance of the designed hand is evaluated through evaluation criteria used for prosthetic hands.

This work was supported by Valma Angliss Trust.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3040, Australia

    Alireza Mohammadi & Denny Oetomo

  2. Caulfield Hospital, Caulfield, VIC, 3162, Australia

    Jim Lavranos

  3. Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne at St Vincent’s Hospital, Fitzroy, VIC, 3065, Australia

    Peter Choong

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Correspondence to Alireza Mohammadi .

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  1. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Lorenzo Masia

  2. Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Translational Neural Engineering Area, The BioRobotics Institute, Pisa, Italy

    Silvestro Micera

  3. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Cullen College of Engineering, Houston, TX, USA

    Metin Akay

  4. Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain

    José L. Pons

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Mohammadi, A., Lavranos, J., Choong, P., Oetomo, D. (2019). X-Limb: A Soft Prosthetic Hand with User-Friendly Interface. In: Masia, L., Micera, S., Akay, M., Pons, J. (eds) Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation III. ICNR 2018. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 21. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01845-0_16

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