HANDEXOS: Towards an exoskeleton device for the rehabilitation of the hand

2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1106-1111

  Chiri, A ^a   Giovacchini, F ^a   Vitiello, N ^a   Cattin, E ^a   Roccella, S ^a   Vecchi, F ^a   Carrozza, M C ^a  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXOSKELETON DEVICES; INDEX FINGER; MECHANICAL DESIGN; POST STROKE PATIENTS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; PATIENT REHABILITATION;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 76249104298     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354376     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (10)

1. D. Epstein, A. Mason, A. Manca, "The hospital costs of care for stroke in nine European countries", Health Economics, vol. 17, pp S21-S31, 2008.
2. R. Colombo, F. Pisano, S. Micera at al. "Robotic techniques for upper limb evaluation and rehabilitation of stroke patients", IEEE Trans. on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering, vol.13, no.3, September 2005.
3. L. Dovat, O. Lambercy, E. Burdet at al., "A haptic knob for rehabilitation of stroke patients", International conference on intelligent robots and systems, October 2006, China.
4. O. Lambercy, L. Dovat, E. Burdet et al., "Development of a robot-assisted rehabilitation therapy to train hand function for activities of daily living", Proc. 2007 IEEE International conference on rehabilitation robotics, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
5. International patent: "Wearable mechatronic device", PCT/IB2008/001990 - Italian patent: 'Ortesi meccatronica per la mano', PI2007A000088.
6. I. A. Kapandji, The Physiology of the Joints: Upper Limb, vol. 1, 5th ed. New York: Elsevier, 1986.
7. B. Massa, S. Roccella, M.C. Carrozza, P. Dario, "Design and development of an underactuated prosthetic hand", Proc. 2002 IEEE International conference on robotics & automation, Washington, DC, pp.3374-3379.
8. th ESA Workshop on Advanced Space Technologies for Robotics and Automation, November 11-13 2008, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
9. nd Edition, Springer-Verlag, London, UK, 2000.
10. D.G. Kamper, W. Zen Rymer, "Quantitative features of the stretch response of extrinsic finger muscles in hemiparetic stroke", Muscle & Nerve, June 2000, pp. 954-961.