Human hand compatible underactuated exoskeleton robotic system

Electronics Letters

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 494-496

  Iqbal, J ^a,b   Tsagarakis, N G ^a   Caldwell, D G ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b EE Department COMSATS ^*  (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS;

DIRECT-DRIVEN; FORCE LEVEL; HAND EXOSKELETON; MAXIMUM FORCES; MECHANICAL DESIGN; OPTIMISATION PROCEDURES; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; UNDERACTUATED;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84896961922     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el.2014.0508     Document Type: Article

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