Design of Wearable Hand Rehabilitation Glove With Bionic Fiber-Reinforced Actuator

Background: The hand motor function is lost and activities in daily life (ADLs) are affected due to some illnesses such as stroke and hemiplegia. As a coping way, we present a wearable rehabilitation glove with the bionic actuator for restoring the hand function and the motor control ability lost by...

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Main Authors: Yali Han, Quan Xu, Feng Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2022-01-01
Series:IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9849668/
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description Background: The hand motor function is lost and activities in daily life (ADLs) are affected due to some illnesses such as stroke and hemiplegia. As a coping way, we present a wearable rehabilitation glove with the bionic actuator for restoring the hand function and the motor control ability lost by stroke patients. Methods: The soft pneumatic bionic actuator (SPBA) is developed on the basis of the research of human hand bone structure and finger joint characteristics and a series of tests are conducted. Besides, we built the rehabilitation glove system based on the proposed SPBAs to verify the availability due to typical gesture, mirror therapy (MT) and grasping experiment for irregular objects. Result: The bending angle of SPBA can reach 260°. The output force of it can reach 5.1N with 0.25 MPa air pressure input. The maximum variance of the bending angle can be concluded at 5.1° in MT. The grasping experiments of the glove worn on the hand or not shows the proposed glove is flexible, the grip force is large and achieve stable grasping of objects. Conclusion: The designed SPBA is satisfied with the requirements of rehabilitation training and the proposed glove restore the normal hand motion of patients in ADLs.
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spelling doaj.art-f540113f711a4d6ea833352518cf78712022-12-22T03:44:36ZengIEEEIEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine2168-23722022-01-011011010.1109/JTEHM.2022.31964919849668Design of Wearable Hand Rehabilitation Glove With Bionic Fiber-Reinforced ActuatorYali Han0Quan Xu1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0706-0172Feng Wu2School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing Institute of Technology, Nanjing, ChinaSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing Institute of Technology, Nanjing, ChinaSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing Institute of Technology, Nanjing, ChinaBackground: The hand motor function is lost and activities in daily life (ADLs) are affected due to some illnesses such as stroke and hemiplegia. As a coping way, we present a wearable rehabilitation glove with the bionic actuator for restoring the hand function and the motor control ability lost by stroke patients. Methods: The soft pneumatic bionic actuator (SPBA) is developed on the basis of the research of human hand bone structure and finger joint characteristics and a series of tests are conducted. Besides, we built the rehabilitation glove system based on the proposed SPBAs to verify the availability due to typical gesture, mirror therapy (MT) and grasping experiment for irregular objects. Result: The bending angle of SPBA can reach 260°. The output force of it can reach 5.1N with 0.25 MPa air pressure input. The maximum variance of the bending angle can be concluded at 5.1° in MT. The grasping experiments of the glove worn on the hand or not shows the proposed glove is flexible, the grip force is large and achieve stable grasping of objects. Conclusion: The designed SPBA is satisfied with the requirements of rehabilitation training and the proposed glove restore the normal hand motion of patients in ADLs.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9849668/Rehabilitation glovehand rehabilitationsoft actuatorsliding mode impedance control
spellingShingle Yali Han
Quan Xu
Feng Wu
Design of Wearable Hand Rehabilitation Glove With Bionic Fiber-Reinforced Actuator
IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine
Rehabilitation glove
hand rehabilitation
soft actuator
sliding mode impedance control
title Design of Wearable Hand Rehabilitation Glove With Bionic Fiber-Reinforced Actuator
title_full Design of Wearable Hand Rehabilitation Glove With Bionic Fiber-Reinforced Actuator
title_fullStr Design of Wearable Hand Rehabilitation Glove With Bionic Fiber-Reinforced Actuator
title_full_unstemmed Design of Wearable Hand Rehabilitation Glove With Bionic Fiber-Reinforced Actuator
title_short Design of Wearable Hand Rehabilitation Glove With Bionic Fiber-Reinforced Actuator
title_sort design of wearable hand rehabilitation glove with bionic fiber reinforced actuator
topic Rehabilitation glove
hand rehabilitation
soft actuator
sliding mode impedance control
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9849668/
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