Design of a 2-finger hand exoskeleton for finger stiffness measurements

Applied Bionics and Biomechanics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 217-228

  Fiorilla, Angelo Emanuele ^a,b   Tsagarakis, Nikos G ^b   Nori, Francesco ^b   Sandini, Giulio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dexterous manipulation; Finger stiffness measurements; Impedance modelling; Physical human robot interaction; Rehabilitation robotics

Indexed keywords

EXOSKELETON (ROBOTICS); MANIPULATORS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; STIFFNESS;

DEXTEROUS MANIPULATION; FINGER MOVEMENTS; HAND EXOSKELETON; HUMAN ARM MOVEMENTS; HUMAN FINGERS; PHYSICAL HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTIONS; REHABILITATION ROBOTICS; STIFFNESS MEASUREMENTS;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 75149160907     PISSN: 11762322     EISSN: 17542103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11762320902920567     Document Type: Article

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