Hand Motion Assist Robot for Rehabilitation Therapy

Haruhisa Kawasaki; Satoshi Ito; Yutaka Nishimoto; Satoshi Ueki; Yasutaka Ishigure; Tetsuya Mouri

doi:10.20965/jrm.2014.p0103

Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics

Online ISSN : 1883-8049
Print ISSN : 0915-3942
ISSN-L : 0915-3942

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Hand Motion Assist Robot for Rehabilitation Therapy

Haruhisa Kawasaki, Satoshi Ito, Yutaka Nishimoto, Satoshi Ueki, Yasutaka Ishigure, Tetsuya Mouri

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Keywords: hand rehabilitation, master-slave, thumb opposition, self-motion-control

JOURNAL OPEN ACCESS

2014 Volume 26 Issue 1 Pages 103-104

DOI https://doi.org/10.20965/jrm.2014.p0103

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This report presents a new hand motion assist robot for rehabilitation therapy. The robot has exoskeleton with 18 DOFs and a self-motion control – symmetrical master-slave motion assistance training. It assists independent flexion/extension and abduction/adduction of individual hand joints, thumb opposability, palmar flexion/dorsiflexion of the wrist, and forearm pronation/ supination.

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