Grip Force Feedback in an Electric Hand - Preliminary Results

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2008

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Feedback of sensation has long been the dream of developers (and wearers) of prosthetic hands, and many earlier efforts have made progress, but never a practical commercially-available system. Although grip force feedback (GFF) is an obvious shortcoming in a hand prosthesis, it has been slow to develop because of the innate difficulties of providing consistent and accurate feedback information to the wearer of an electric hand. A truly useful GFF system must provide, 1) true clinical relevance (we feel it should demonstrably improve control of grip force, contribute to a more natural feel, and represent an acceptable ratio of cost to benefits provided), and 2) technically provide a practical system which can operate for months reliably, and be small enough to install into a cosmetic-looking prosthesis.

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Proceedings of the MEC’08 conference, UNB; 2008.

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Sears, H., E. Iversen, S. Archer, J. Linder and K. Hays (2008). Grip Force Feedback in an Electric Hand - Preliminary Results. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/2813.


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