A Haptic Knob for Rehabilitation of Hand Function

• Published in: IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 356 - 366
• Main Authors: Lambercy, Olivier, Dovat, Ludovic, Gassert, Roger, Burdet, Etienne, Teo, Chee Leong, Milner, Theodore
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.09.2007
• Subjects: Equipment Design; Equipment Failure Analysis; Fingers; Force control; Force measurement; Force sensors; Grasping; Hand; Hand function; Hand Strength; Haptic interfaces; haptic knob; human-oriented mechatronic design; Humans; Medical treatment; Movement Disorders - rehabilitation; Position measurement; Rehabilitation robotics; Robot kinematics; robotic rehabilitation; Robotics - instrumentation; Robotics - methods; Stroke Rehabilitation; Therapy, Computer-Assisted - instrumentation; Therapy, Computer-Assisted - methods; Touch; Transducers

This paper describes a novel two-degree-of-freedom robotic interface to train opening/closing of the hand and knob manipulation. The mechanical design, based on two parallelogram structures holding an exchangeable button, offers the possibility to adapt the interface to various hand sizes and finger...