Lince A, Celadon N, Battezzato A, Favetto A, Appendino S, Ariano P, Paleari M
IEEE Int Conf Rehabil Robot. 2017 Jul;2017:670-675. doi: 10.1109/ICORR.2017.8009325.
Stroke and other neurological pathologies are an increasing cause of hand impairment, involving expensive rehabilitative therapies. In this scenario, robotics applied to hand rehabilitation and assistance appears particularly promising in order to lower therapy costs and boost its efficacy. This work shows a recently conceived hand exoskeleton, from the design and realization to its preliminary evaluation. A control strategy based on surface electromyography (sEMG) signals is integrated: preliminary tests performed on healthy subjects show the validity of this choice. The testing protocol, applied on healthy subjects, demonstrated the robustness of the whole system, both in terms of mimicking a physiological distribution of finger forces across subjects, and of realizing an effective control strategy based on the user's intention.
中风和其他神经病理学是导致手部功能障碍的一个日益常见的原因，这涉及到昂贵的康复治疗。在这种情况下，应用于手部康复和辅助的机器人技术在降低治疗成本和提高治疗效果方面显得特别有前景。这项工作展示了一种最近构思的手部外骨骼，涵盖了从设计、实现到初步评估的过程。集成了一种基于表面肌电图（sEMG）信号的控制策略：在健康受试者身上进行的初步测试证明了这一选择的有效性。应用于健康受试者的测试方案表明，整个系统在模拟手指力量在受试者之间的生理分布以及基于用户意图实现有效控制策略方面都具有稳健性。
