Mechanical design of an anthropomorphic prosthetic hand for shape memory alloy actuation

2010 5th Cairo International Biomedical Engineering Conference, CIBEC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 86-89

  El Kady, Ahmed M ^a   Mahfouz, Ahmed E ^a   Taher, Mona F ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL INPUTS; CONTROL SCHEMES; FINGER FLEXION; LIMITED SPACE; MAIN COMPONENT; MECHANICAL DESIGN; NATURAL SHAPES; POWER CONSUMPTION; PROSTHETIC HANDS; SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY; SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY WIRE; UPPER LIMBS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CABLES; CERIUM ALLOYS; PROSTHETICS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

DESIGN;

EID: 79952544246     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIBEC.2010.5716078     Document Type: Conference Paper

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