Design and characterization of soft actuator for hand rehabilitation application

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 45, Issue , 2015, Pages 367-370

  Yap, Hong Kai ^a,b   Goh, James Cho Hong ^b   Yeow, Raye Chen Hua ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Actuators; Hand Exoskeleton; Rehabilitation; Soft Robots; Wearable

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PATIENT REHABILITATION; ROBOTS;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; HAND EXOSKELETON; HAND REHABILITATION; MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; RADIUS OF CURVATURE; SOFT ROBOT; WEARABLE;

PNEUMATIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 84937784187     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-11128-5_92     Document Type: Conference Paper

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