A SEVEN-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM ARM WITH UNIQUE SHOULDER FUNCTION

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2005

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The most advanced powered prosthetic arm in 2005 is the experimental seven-degree-of-freedom (DOF) arm prepared for a bilateral shoulder disarticulation patient at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. The major components are an LTI Boston Digital Arm supplying the elbow drive and control electronics, a hand with wrist flexion-extension from China, a Bock wrist rotator, a humeral rotator from Northwestern University (NWU), a shoulder flex-extension module from TouchEMAS in the UK, an LTI Locking Shoulder Joint, and an LTI VariGrip III Controller

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Proceedings of the MEC’05 conference, UNB; 2005.

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Williams, T. Walley III (2005). A SEVEN-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM ARM WITH UNIQUE SHOULDER FUNCTION. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/2756.


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