A hydraulic solution for actuating a human hand prosthesis

WSEAS Transactions on Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 40-46

  Ungureanu, Loredana ^a   Stanciu, Antonius ^a   Menyhardt, Karoly ^a  

^a POLITEHNICA UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Automatic system; Dynamics of human hand; Hand control; Human hand constraints; Human hand prosthesis; Kinematics of hand prosthesis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; END EFFECTORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROSTHETICS;

AUTOMATIC SYSTEM; DYNAMICS OF HUMAN HAND; HAND CONTROL; HUMAN HAND CONSTRAINTS; HUMAN HAND PROSTHESIS; KINEMATICS OF HAND PROSTHESIS;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 33751565281     PISSN: 11092777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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