Using the robotic sixth finger and vibrotactile feedback for grasp compensation in chronic stroke patients

IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics

Volumn 2015-September, Issue , 2015, Pages 67-72

  Hussain, Irfan ^a   Salvietti, Gionata ^b   Meli, Leonardo ^a,b   Pacchierotti, Claudio ^a,b   Cioncoloni, David ^c   Rossi, Simone ^d   Prattichizzo, Domenico ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; FEEDBACK; PATIENT REHABILITATION; ROBOTIC ARMS;

CHRONIC STROKE; CUTANEOUS SENSATION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; POST STROKE PATIENTS; QUALITATIVE EXPERIMENTS; ROBOTIC FINGER; VIBRO-TACTILE FEEDBACKS; VIBRO-TACTILE INTERFACES;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84946067505     PISSN: 19457898     EISSN: 19457901     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICORR.2015.7281177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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