Practical Papers, Articles and Application Notes

Abstract

With the advancements of robotic technology, robots have been widely deployed in factory automation and health care. One of the major applications of robots in health care is the myoelectric artificial hand. It consists of a myoelectric signal detector connected to a motor-controlled artificial hand driving unit by wires. In the near future, they will be connected wirelessly for convenience but this may pose an EMI risk to the normal operation of the artificial hand. One possible source of EMI is the electrostatic discharge (ESD) from a charged human body. As the malfunction of a myoelectric artificial hand due to ESD has a direct impact on human life, high immunity performance is required. Yasuhiro Morinaga, Keinosuke Nagai, Jianqing Wang and Daisuke Anzai from Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, look into this impact and propose design improvements to enhance the immunity of the myoelectric artificial hand against ESD in the paper “Impact of Electrostatic Discharge on Wearable Robotic Hand and Improvement of Immunity Performance by Wireless Control.”