皮膚センシング技術を用いた電動義手の定量評価

抄録

The author has proposed a technology suggested technique to measure shape deformation of the skin surface caused by exercise as a command signal of the electric prosthesis by using a flexible sensor such as a strain gauge. In this paper, clinical experiments were conducted by healthy people such as hospital staff and students in order to evaluate the performance of this technology and prototype electric hand. In clinical experiments, we set up an electric hand directly under the arm of a healthy person so that we can experience mimicking of deterioration of upper limb function, and a simple upper extremity functional test (STEF, Simple Test for Evaluating Hand Function) used at rehabilitation field. We quantitatively evaluated the function by using an electric hand under prototype.