Towards a soft pneumatic glove for hand rehabilitation

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1512-1517

  Polygerinos, Panagiotis ^a   Lyne, Stacey ^b   Wang, Zheng ^a   Nicolini, Luis Fernando ^a   Mosadegh, Bobak ^c,d   Whitesides, George M ^c,d   Walsh, Conor J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD COLLEGE   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING CURVATURE; ELASTOMERIC MATERIALS; FABRICATION PROCEDURE; GEOMETRICAL ANALYSIS; HAND REHABILITATION; INTEGRATED CHANNELS; QUALITATIVE EVALUATIONS; ROBOTIC TECHNOLOGIES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; PNEUMATICS;

PNEUMATIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 84893724887     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696549     Document Type: Conference Paper

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