De Rossi Danilo, Carpi Federico, Lorussi Federico, Scilingo Enzo Pasquale, Tognetti Alessandro
Interdepartmental Research Centre "E.Piaggio" and Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy.
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2009;2009:6830-3. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334481.
Kinesthetic and haptic interfaces between humans and machines are currently under development in a truly wearable form, using innovative technologies based on electroactive polymers. The integration of electroactive polymeric materials into wearable garments is becoming a viable mean to confer the garment strain sensing and actuation properties. In this paper, the implementation and testing of fabric-based wearable interfaces for the upper limb endowed with spatially redundant strain sensing are reported. Electroactive polymer actuators, which we are currently investigating, are discussed with emphasis given to their unique capabilities in the phenomenological mimicking of skeletal muscle actuation and control. Finally, current work in preliminary evaluation of prototypes in the field of post-stroke rehabilitation is also briefly presented.
目前，基于电活性聚合物的创新技术正在开发真正可穿戴形式的人机动觉和触觉界面。将电活性聚合物材料集成到可穿戴服装中正在成为赋予服装应变传感和驱动特性的可行手段。本文报道了具有空间冗余应变传感功能的上肢织物基可穿戴界面的实现与测试。文中讨论了我们目前正在研究的电活性聚合物致动器，重点介绍了它们在现象学上模拟骨骼肌驱动和控制方面的独特能力。最后，还简要介绍了中风后康复领域原型初步评估的当前工作。
