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Force Your Hand—PAM Enabled Wrist Support

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Haptic Interaction (AsiaHaptics 2016)

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Assisted motions in human body reduce muscular activation and eventually, fatigue. This paper proposes an assistive model for the wrist of a human body enabled with a set of pneumatic actuators that act like artificial muscles for supporting various motions of the user. These motions include flexion, extension, and pronation of the wrist. A series of experiments were carried out in order to verify the effectiveness and efficiency of the glove design by measuring EMG (Electromyography) signals of the concerned muscles, and positive results were obtained.

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  1. Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, 1-4-1 Kagamiyama, Higashihiroshima City, Hiroshima, 739-8527, Japan

    Swagata Das & Yuichi Kurita

  2. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA

    Cassie Lowell

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Correspondence to Swagata Das .

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  1. Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

    Shoichi Hasegawa

  2. Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

    Masashi Konyo

  3. Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea (Republic of)

    Ki-Uk Kyung

  4. The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

    Takuya Nojima

  5. The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

    Hiroyuki Kajimoto

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Das, S., Lowell, C., Kurita, Y. (2018). Force Your Hand—PAM Enabled Wrist Support. In: Hasegawa, S., Konyo, M., Kyung, KU., Nojima, T., Kajimoto, H. (eds) Haptic Interaction. AsiaHaptics 2016. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 432. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4157-0_41

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