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Physical therapy is an important resource for the recovery process of several medical conditions. Hand mobility impairment, for example, affects a patients life quality, making it a need to develop aid devices that improve the results of hand therapy, quickening the recovery process. The engineering design process of a wearable and portable rehabilitation glove, was based on the use of muscle wires or Nitinol and specially designed flex sensors. The automated control of this device is performed based on Pulse Width Modulation (PWM), its working cycle, and the feedback provided by the flex sensors, which allow the controlled movement of the different joints in each finger through the use of an interactive graphical user interface, simplifying the phases of measuring the bending angles of each joint before and after each session.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the intellectual contributions of Licda. Alejandra González C., Msc. Marta E. Vílchez M., and Ing. Jorge Bolaños, for this project’s research and development.
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Jiménez, C., Mora, R., Pérez, J., Quirós, K. (2017). Nitiglove: Nitinol-Driven Robotic Glove Used to Assist Therapy for Hand Mobility Recovery. In: González-Vargas, J., Ibáñez, J., Contreras-Vidal, J., van der Kooij, H., Pons, J. (eds) Wearable Robotics: Challenges and Trends. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46532-6_62
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