Soft Robotic Glove with Sensing and Force Feedback for Rehabilitation in Virtual Reality.

ABSTRACT: Many diseases, such as stroke, arthritis, and spinal cord injury, can cause severe hand impairment. Treatment options for these patients are limited by expensive hand rehabilitation devices and dull treatment procedures. In this study, we present an inexpensive soft robotic glove for hand rehabilitation in virtual reality (VR). Fifteen inertial measurement units are placed on the glove for finger motion tracking, and a motor-tendon actuation system is mounted onto the arm and exerts forces on fingertips via finger-anchoring points, providing force feedback to fingers so that the users can feel the force of a virtual object. A static threshold correction and complementary filter are used to calculate the finger attitude angles, hence computing the postures of five fingers simultaneously. Bo

SUBMITTER: Li F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9944851 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature