A light weight compliant hand mechanism with high degrees of freedom

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 934-945

  Potratz, Jason ^a   Yang, Jingzhou ^a   Abdel Malek, Karim ^a   Peña Pitarch, Esteban ^b   Grosland, Nicole ^a,c  

^a IA United States   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Compliant Lightweight Mechanism; Hand Mechanism; High Degree of Freedom

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MACHINE DESIGN; SPRINGS (COMPONENTS);

COMPLIANT LIGHTWEIGHT MECHANISM; COMPRESSION SPRING; HIGH DEGREE OF FREEDOM; MYOELECTRIC SIGNALS;

BIOMECHANICS;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; DEVICE; FINGER; HAND MOVEMENT; MYOELECTRICITY; SIMULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; WEIGHT; WEIGHT BEARING;

BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FINGER JOINT; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PILOT PROJECTS; ROBOTICS; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 27444433993     PISSN: 01480731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2052805     Document Type: Article

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