TY - GEN
T1 - Development of a grip aid system using air cylinders
AU - Takagi, Motoki
AU - Iwata, Kie
AU - Takahashi, Yoshiyuki
AU - Yamamoto, Shin Ichiroh
AU - Koyama, Hiroyuki
AU - Komeda, Takashi
PY - 2009/11/2
Y1 - 2009/11/2
N2 - We have been developing a grip aid system using air cylinders to assist elderly who have weak grasping force to have daily living activities. The system is small and light weight. In this paper, mechanism to assist thumb, index, and middle fingers using one air cylinder for each finger, is proposed. and also control method of the device using a bending sensor to transfer their will to control the system is developed. Finally much kind of objects are grasped with an assist of the system and the result shows a potential of the system.
AB - We have been developing a grip aid system using air cylinders to assist elderly who have weak grasping force to have daily living activities. The system is small and light weight. In this paper, mechanism to assist thumb, index, and middle fingers using one air cylinder for each finger, is proposed. and also control method of the device using a bending sensor to transfer their will to control the system is developed. Finally much kind of objects are grasped with an assist of the system and the result shows a potential of the system.
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U2 - 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152246
DO - 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152246
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70350357029
SN - 9781424427895
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
SP - 2312
EP - 2317
BT - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA '09
T2 - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA '09
Y2 - 12 May 2009 through 17 May 2009
ER -