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Design of a Finger Exoskeleton for Motion Guidance

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In this paper, a novel exoskeleton for finger rehabilitation is presented. The exoskeleton is designed as a serial, 2-degrees-of-freedom wearable mechanism that is able to follow human finger motion. Motion tracking is used to characterize the movement of the human finger. Thereby the design requirements are outlined. The mechanism is synthesized, and its simulated motion is compared with experimental data to validate the proposed design.

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Acknowledgments

The first author gratefully acknowledges the Erasmus+ program for the period of study he spent in 2017–2018 at the University of Cassino and South Latium under the supervision of Prof. M. Ceccarelli.

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  1. Institut für Getriebetechnik, Maschinendynamik und Robotik, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Eike-Cristian Gerding, Sven Rink & Burkhard Corves

  2. LARM: Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics, University of Cassino and Southern Latium, Cassino, Italy

    Giuseppe Carbone, Daniele Cafolla, Matteo Russo & Marco Ceccarelli

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  1. Institute of Mechanism Theory, Machine Dynamics and Robotics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Burkhard Corves

  2. LS2N, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Nantes, France

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  3. Institute of Mechanism Theory, Machine Dynamics and Robotics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Mathias Hüsing

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Gerding, EC. et al. (2019). Design of a Finger Exoskeleton for Motion Guidance. In: Corves, B., Wenger, P., Hüsing, M. (eds) EuCoMeS 2018 . EuCoMeS 2018. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 59. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98020-1_2

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