Development and preliminary testing of an EMG-based control strategy for a hand exoskeleton

Introduction: Assistive robotic devices, specifically designed to share the environment with human users even physically interacting with them for long periods of time, demand to tackle the problem of a safe and dependable human-robot interaction [1], [2]. The proposed work, which focused on the peculiar aspect of the interaction between people with hand disabilities and robotic assistive devices, describes how a hand exoskeleton system, developed by the Department of Industrial Engineering (DIEF) of the University of Florence (UNIFI) to assist people with deficiencies in hand opening, has been used as a test-bench for a control strategy based on surface ElectroMyoGraphy (sEMG).
Source: Gait and Posture - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Source Type: research