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In the last years, the number of projects studying the human hand from the robotic point of view has increased rapidly, due to the growing interest in academic and industrial applications. Nevertheless, the complexity of the human hand, given its large number of degrees of freedom (DoF) within a significantly reduced space requires an exhaustive analysis, before proposing any applications. The aim of this paper is to provide a complete summary of the kinematic and dynamic characteristics of the human finger as a preliminary step towards the development of hand devices such as prosthetic/robotic hands and exoskeletons imitating the human hand shape and functionality. Kinematics and dynamics are presented for a generic finger; with anthropometric data and the dynamics equations, simulations were performed to understand its behavior.
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Chen, F.C., Appendino, S., Battezzato, A., Favetto, A., Mousavi, M., Pescarmona, F. (2014). Human Finger Kinematics and Dynamics. In: Petuya, V., Pinto, C., Lovasz, EC. (eds) New Advances in Mechanisms, Transmissions and Applications. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7485-8_15
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