Soft Robotic Hand Exoskeleton Systems: Review and Challenges Surrounding the Technology

DOI

10.2991/eame-17.2017.45How to use a DOI?

Keywords

exoskeleton; rehabilitation; hand rehabilitation; wearalbe robot; hand exoskeleton; soft robot; soft glove; power-assist; rehabilitation robotics; flexure hinge

Abstract

Soft robotic hand exoskeleton systems are taken into account to solve the problems happened in the hand rehabilitation, such as long-term training for stroke patients and heavy workload for physicians. These systems are one of the hot issues in recent robotic research because that they are not only applied in rehabilitation but also in assisting the human beings. With the difference of the rigid robotic exoskeleton hand systems, the soft exoskeleton hand systems should be designed together with the human hand since they directly interact with the patients. This paper briefly reviews different robotic hand exoskeleton systems from two aspects: mechanical design and control system. The existing soft hand exoskeleton technologies and challenges are discussed in this paper.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Qiaoling Meng
AU  - Shichuan Xiang
AU  - Hongliu Yu
PY  - 2017/04
DA  - 2017/04
TI  - Soft Robotic Hand Exoskeleton Systems: Review and Challenges Surrounding the Technology
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Conference on Electrical, Automation and Mechanical Engineering (EAME 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 186
EP  - 190
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/eame-17.2017.45
DO  - 10.2991/eame-17.2017.45
ID  - Meng2017/04
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