Development and experimental testing of a portable hand exoskeleton

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 2015-December, Issue , 2015, Pages 5339-5344

  Allotta, Benedetto ^a   Conti, Roberto ^a   Governi, Lapo ^a   Meli, Enrico ^a   Ridolfi, Alessandro ^a   Volpe, Yary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Exoskeletons; Joints; Kinematics; Mathematical model; Prototypes; Solid modeling; Trajectory

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRAJECTORIES;

ASSISTIVE DEVICES; EXPERIMENTAL TESTING; FINGERTIP TRAJECTORY; HAND EXOSKELETON; PARALLEL KINEMATICS; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PROTOTYPES; SOLID MODEL;

EXOSKELETON (ROBOTICS);

EID: 84958156406     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2015.7354131     Document Type: Conference Paper

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