Title
Cooperative movement in grasping and development of grasping-training robot
Abstract
In previous research, we designed a grasp-training robot for the post-stroke patient in relation to its usability and wearability for ease of use in clinical practice. Experimental results obtained from a post-stroke patient showed that by combining a grasping support of the robot and the mechanism for pushing an elastic bar on the palm, the grasping reflex was induced in paralyzed patient in a clinical test that involves measuring EMG signals. However, the robot has one structural issue that subjects could not use the robot without fixing subjects' wrist joint, then the robot could not realize synergistic movement of the wrist and the fingers. In this paper, we introduced the new mechanism that can extend the wrist joint into the previous robot having the glove type device. New mechanism is designed by imitating a mechanism of the bascule bridge. We introduced the wire drive system having one motor and the stepped shaft for pulling wires. As the shaft has steps, the shaft can pull different amount of wires for the glove type device and the wrist movement mechanism, then the robot can realize the extension of the wrist and the flexion of the fingers as a cooperative motion.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/MHS.2018.8887007
2018 International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science (MHS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
paralyzed patient,wrist joint,glove type device,wrist movement mechanism,grasping-training robot,grasp-training robot,post-stroke patient,grasping support,grasping reflex,cooperative movement,elastic bar,EMG signals,stepped shaft,bascule bridge,wire drive system,cooperative motion
Grasping reflex,Wrist,Simulation,Usability,Clinical Practice,Control engineering,Robot,Materials science
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2474-3763
978-1-5386-6794-1
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shotaro Okajima101.35
Fady S. Alnajjar200.34
Yasuhisa Hasegawa345694.62
Shingo Shimoda422.40