Fishbone-inspired soft robotic glove for hand rehabilitation with multi-degrees-of-freedom

Jiang, Yongkang; Chen, Diansheng; Liu, Pengyong; Jiao, Xiaofang; Ping, Zilong; Xu, Zi; Li, Jian; Xu, Ying

doi:10.1109/robosoft.2018.8404951

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“…Some exosuits utilize smaller rigid or semi-rigid components as an integral part of the design, to create "anchor points," which relieve load on the wearer (Asbeck et al 2013;Quinlivan et al 2015;Li et al 2018). By integrating anchor points correctly, strength and structure can be provided to the device without sacrificing flexibility and wearability for the user (Jiang et al 2018). Rigid components are kept a safe distance away from the user, ensuring that the user only directly interacts with soft components (Balasubramanian et al 2008).…”

Section: Advanced Fabrication Methods Used In Swr Actuatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As cable-driven SWRs gained popularity, this strategy actuation is effective as it mimics the natural mechanics of the hand and tendons and often have a low profile, though often requires motors being placed somewhere on the arm or wrist. PAMs (Sasaki et al 2005b), fluidic elastomers (Polygerinos et al 2015;Zhao et al 2016;Jiang et al 2018;Shiota et al 2019), and fabric-based inflatable (Noritsugu et al 2008;Zhu et al 2017;Realmuto and Sanger 2019) actuation methods have been used to achieve various levels of assistance and are typically all actuated using pneumatics, which pose similar uses of needed tubing and a pneumatic source. Fabric-based pneumatics have shown promise to avoid some of the issues of bulkiness observed in PAMs and elastomers.…”

Section: Wrist and Handmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A review of soft wearable robots that provide active assistance: Trends, common actuation methods, fabrication, and applications

2020

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This review meta-analysis combines and compares the findings of previously published works in the field of soft wearable robots (SWRs) that provide active methods of actuation for assistive and augmentative purposes. A thorough investigation of major contributions in the field of an SWR is made to analyze trends in the field focused on fluidic and cable-driven systems, prevalent and successful approaches, and identify the future direction of SWRs and active actuation strategies. Types of soft actuators used in wearables are outlined, as well as general practices for fabrication methods of soft actuators and considerations for human–robot interface designs of garment-like exosuits. An overview of well-known and emerging upper body (UB)- and lower body (LB)-assistive technologies is categorized by the specific joints and degree of freedom (DoF) assisted and which actuator methodology is provided. Different use cases for SWRs are addressed, as well as implementation strategies and design applications.

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Section: Advanced Fabrication Methods Used In Swr Actuatorsmentioning

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A review of soft wearable robots that provide active assistance: Trends, common actuation methods, fabrication, and applications

2020

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“…To match and support finger flexion-extension, some designs include multisegment elastomers with fiber reinforcement [80,81] or corrugated fabric layers [41,43] which are pressurized from 70 kPa up to 375 kPa [75]. Other designs include rigid plastic hoops [67] or nylon strings [82] to avoid radial deformations in FREA.…”

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“…Nevertheless, low repeatability is the main drawback during this process [48]. Recent developments involve thermomethods [34], inverse flow injection [42,82], lost wax molding [88], or fused deposition modeling with 3D printing at home to reduce SEG costs and facilitate its acquisition [89]. However, there is still room to improve SEG materials and fabrication with low costs.…”

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Design Criteria of Soft Exogloves for Hand Rehabilitation-Assistance Tasks

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Vilchis-González

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Applied Bionics and Biomechanics

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This paper establishes design criteria for soft exogloves (SEG) to be used as rehabilitation or assistance devices. This research consists in identifying, selecting, and grouping SEG features based on the analysis of 91 systems that have been proposed during the last decade. Thus, function, mobility, and usability criteria are defined and explicitly discussed to highlight SEG design guidelines. Additionally, this study provides a detailed description of each system that was analysed including application, functional task, palm design, actuation type, assistance mode, degrees of freedom (DOF), target fingers, motions, material, weight, force, pressure (only for fluids), control strategy, and assessment. Such characteristics have been reported according to specific design methodologies and operating principles. Technological trends are contemplated in this contribution with emphasis on SEG design opportunity areas. In this review, suggestions, limitations, and implications are also discussed in order to enhance future SEG developments aimed at stroke survivors or people with hand disabilities.

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“…This is a new soft pneumatic actuator's design scheme that allows customization of geometry-based bending modes. Inspired by the biological structure of fish bones, Jiang et al proposed a novel fish-bone soft actuator with multi-degrees-of-freedom and designed a preliminary soft glove (Figure 3i) [64]. Fishbone actuators are manufactured by a method called lost-wax-inverse-flow-injection [65].…”

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Soft Rehabilitation and Nursing-Care Robots: A Review and Future Outlook

Peng

Huang

2019

Applied Sciences

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Rehabilitation and nursing-care robots have become one of the prevalent methods for assistant treatment of motor disorder patients in the field of medical rehabilitation. Traditional rehabilitation robots are mostly made of rigid materials, which significantly limits their application for medical rehabilitation and nursing-care. Soft robots show great potential in the field of rehabilitation robots because of their inherent compliance and safety when they interact with humans. In this paper, we conduct a systematic summary and discussion on the soft rehabilitation and nursing-care robots. This study reviews typical mechanical structures, modeling methods, and control strategies of soft rehabilitation and nursing-care robots in recent years. We classify soft rehabilitation and nursing-care robots into two categories according to their actuation technology, one is based on tendon-driven actuation and the other is based on soft intelligent material actuation. Finally, we analyze and discuss the future directions and work about soft rehabilitation and nursing-care robots, which can provide useful guidance and help on the development of advanced soft rehabilitation and nursing-care robots.

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Fishbone-inspired soft robotic glove for hand rehabilitation with multi-degrees-of-freedom

Cited by 27 publications

References 26 publications

A review of soft wearable robots that provide active assistance: Trends, common actuation methods, fabrication, and applications

A review of soft wearable robots that provide active assistance: Trends, common actuation methods, fabrication, and applications

Design Criteria of Soft Exogloves for Hand Rehabilitation-Assistance Tasks

Soft Rehabilitation and Nursing-Care Robots: A Review and Future Outlook

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