... rubber Sensors Polypyrrole Strain sensor Hand exoskeleton Pneumatic artificial muscles Prosthetic devices The origin of pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs), or widely known as McKibben artificial muscles, dates back to 1960s where R.H. Gaylord invented PAMs and made famous by J.L. McKibben...

... Prosthetic devices User interfaces Healthcare is a robotic application which is growing due to demographic changes (an ever‐growing elderly population), anticipated shortages of healthcare personnel, expectations for improving the quality of life for the elderly, the injured and the disabled...

... Group Publishing Limited 2010 Man machine interface Robotics Prosthetic devices Audibility The central nervous system (CNS) uses redundant information from different sensory channels (tactile, vision, auditive, proprioceptive, and vestibular) to perceive the actual state of our body...

... at: joseph.hitt@usma.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Rehabilitation Robotics Prosthetic devices Limbs Mechanical systems Control technology There have been significant improvements in prosthetic and orthotic technologies in recent years. Several prosthetic companies have...

... Robotics Prosthetic devices Rehabilitation Armed forces Research and development While all of these devices aim to assist patients with a full compliment of limbs, related developments are targeting amputees and examples include robotic hands, arms, ankles and feet. These are the subject...

... the prosthetic thumb to determine which finger it will close upon. Figures 1, 4, 5 and 6 show some of the most useful configurations that can be achieved: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Prosthetic devices Artificial limbs Microprocessor chips Microcontrollers In July 2007, two...

...Jingzhou Yang; Karim Abdel‐Malek; Jason Potratz Purpose This paper presents the design and prototyping of the Inherently cOmpliant light Weight Active (IOWA) hand, an active hand prosthetic device. Design/methodology/approach This hand prosthetic device has five actuated fingers, each...