Cable Driven Multi-Articulating Fingers, Providing Compliant Grasp For The Partial Hand Amputee.

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2008

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Mikosz, Matthew J.

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This article will describe a new concept in fitting the partial hand amputee to offer them enhanced grasp and improve their overall functional ability with the prosthesis. The concept is to activate the mechanical fingers through existing wrist motion to provide active grasp that is compliant to any object.

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hand prosthesis, Amputees

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

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Mikosz, Matthew J. (2008). Cable Driven Multi-Articulating Fingers, Providing Compliant Grasp For The Partial Hand Amputee. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/2799.

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