Augmenting Human Manipulation Abilities with Supernumerary Robotic Limbs

✍ Scribed by Irfan Hussain, Domenico Prattichizzo

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Springer
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 155
• Series: Biosystems & Biorobotics 26
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers a timely report on an emerging topic in the field of wearable assistive technology: the design and development of robotic extra fingers. After a concise review of the state of the art and a description of earlier prototypes, it discusses the authors’ efforts to address issues such as portability and wearability of the devices, including strategies to reduce fatigue and to integrate the motion of the extra fingers with that of the human hand. The book also explores optimized control algorithms and the design of wearable sensorimotor interfaces, and presents a set of tests carried out on healthy subjects and chronic stroke patients. Merging concepts from robotics, biomechanics, human factors and control theory and offering an overview of supernumerary robotic fingers, including the challenges, this book will inspire researchers involved in the development of wearable robotic devices and interfaces based on the principles of wearability, safety, ergonomics and user comfort.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Introduction (Irfan Hussain, Domenico Prattichizzo)....Pages 1-7
Enhancing Human Hand Manipulation Abilities Through Supernumerary Robotic Fingers (Irfan Hussain, Domenico Prattichizzo)....Pages 9-24
Compensating Hand Function in Chronic Stroke Patients Through the Supernumerary Robotic Finger (Irfan Hussain, Domenico Prattichizzo)....Pages 25-38
Design and Development of Soft Supernumerary Robotic Fingers for Grasp Compensation in Chronic Stroke Patients (Irfan Hussain, Domenico Prattichizzo)....Pages 39-73
Wearable Sensory Motor Interfaces for Supernumerary Robotic Fingers (Irfan Hussain, Domenico Prattichizzo)....Pages 75-92
Wearable EMG Interfaces for Motion Control of Supernumerary Robotic Fingers (Irfan Hussain, Domenico Prattichizzo)....Pages 93-119
From Grasp Compensation Towards Hemiparetic Upper Limb Rehabilitation (Irfan Hussain, Domenico Prattichizzo)....Pages 121-130
Conclusions and Future Work (Irfan Hussain, Domenico Prattichizzo)....Pages 131-136
Back Matter ....Pages 137-145

✦ Subjects

Engineering; Biomedical Engineering; Robotics and Automation; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction