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A Soft Tendon-Driven Robotic Glove: Preliminary Evaluation

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Soft wearable robots promise to be the new frontier for assistance and augmentation of human motor abilities. In this work, we present the design, controller and a preliminary assessment of a soft, textile based glove for assisting hand movements. The device is shown to reduce the muscular effort required for grasping an object in healthy subjects, for forces up to 25 N but slows hand movements in free space.

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  1. School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Michele Xiloyannis

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Polytechnic University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Letizia Galli & Francesco Braghin

  3. Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, TeCIP Institute, PERCRO Laboratory, Pisa, Italy

    Domenico Chiaradia & Antonio Frisoli

  4. Department of Biomechanical Engineering, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands

    Lorenzo Masia

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Correspondence to Michele Xiloyannis .

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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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Xiloyannis, M., Galli, L., Chiaradia, D., Frisoli, A., Braghin, F., Masia, L. (2019). A Soft Tendon-Driven Robotic Glove: Preliminary Evaluation. 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_66

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