• DocumentCode
    1911056
  • Title

    A Novel Architecture for the Design of Prosthetic and Robotic Hands

  • Author

    Vinjamuri, Ramana ; Mao, Zhi-Hong ; Sclabassi, Robert ; Sun, Mingui

  • Author_Institution
    University of Pittsburgh, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA 15261
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    2006
  • Firstpage
    163
  • Lastpage
    164
  • Abstract
    This paper establishes an architecture for design of prosthetic and robotic hands. By exploiting the information obtained from CyberGlove®and surface EMG data for muscle activity, we propose a new method for design of prosthetic and robotic hands.
  • Keywords
    Computer architecture; Data gloves; Electromyography; Fingers; Force control; Humans; Motion measurement; Muscles; Prosthetic hand; Robot kinematics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Bioengineering Conference, 2006. Proceedings of the IEEE 32nd Annual Northeast
  • Conference_Location
    Easton, PA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9563-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NEBC.2006.1629803
  • Filename
    1629803