A soft exoskeleton for hand assistive and rehabilitation application using pneumatic actuators with variable stiffness

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2015-June, Issue June, 2015, Pages 4967-4972

  Yap, Hong Kai ^a,d   Lim, Jeong Hoon ^b   Nasrallah, Fatima ^c   Goh, James C H ^a   Yeow, Raye C H ^a,e  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology (SINAPSE)   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; EXOSKELETON (ROBOTICS); PNEUMATIC EQUIPMENT; PNEUMATICS; STIFFNESS; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

CUSTOMIZABILITY; HAND GRASPING; HAND THERAPY; KEY FEATURE; MAXIMUM FORCES; RANGE OF MOTIONS; TABLE-TOP; VARIABLE STIFFNESS;

PNEUMATIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 84938249369     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139889     Document Type: Conference Paper

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