DEVELOPMENT OF UPPER EXTREMITY PROSTHESIS WHICH USES SHAPE-MEMORY ALLOY : MECHANISM OF UPPER EXTREMITY PROSTHESIS

Abstract

This study possesses the same freedom degree as man's hand, and aims at the development of the upper extremity prosthesis where the noise is generated only by lightness. This thesis describes the mechanism to achieve the feature, the performance of the shape-memory alloy used, and the multi freedom degree, the system configuration, the grasp experiment of the object, and the policy in the future.