Development Of Prosthetic Hand Research Articles

OBT-Trace: An approach to trace and recognition object motion through prosthetic hand gestures

The development of prosthetic hands has advanced significantly in recent years, aiming to provide more intuitive and functional solutions for individuals with upper limb amputations. This research presents a novel approach to prosthetic hand control by integrating 3D hand gesture recognition with object manipulation and recognition capabilities. Our proposed system utilizes a pre-trained object recognition model, based on transfer learning, to enable the prosthetic hand to perceive and identify objects in its vicinity. The model leverages a vast dataset of objects, enabling the prosthetic hand to recognize a wide array of everyday items, thus enhancing its versatility.In addition, the prosthetic hand incorporates a sophisticated 3D hand gesture recognition system, allowing users to control the hand's movements and actions seamlessly. By recognizing specific gestures, such as grasping, lifting, and releasing, users can intuitively interact with their environment and perform various tasks with ease. This research leverages the synergy between gesture recognition and object recognition, creating a powerful framework for prosthetic hand control. The system's adaptability and versatility make it suitable for a broad range of applications, from assisting with daily tasks to enhancing the quality of life for individuals with upper limb amputations.The results of this study demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of combining 3D hand gesture recognition with pre-trained object recognition through transfer learning. This approach opens up new possibilities for enhancing prosthetic hand functionality and usability, ultimately improving the lives of those who rely on these devices for daily living. The proposed model combines the features of YOLO V7 object detection with pre-trained models. The proposed model achieves 99.8% of accuracy compared to the existing models.

Design and Development of Prosthetic Hand Controlled by Wireless Gestures for Differently Able People

This paper focuses on the design and development of Prosthetic hand to help differently-able people who lost their hands due to accidents and diseases. Our research purpose is to develop a master and slave robotic system that will be a substitute for the lost hand to do the day-to-day activities of a person. The person has to wear smart gloves in the hand to do gesture action. The gloves will able to transfer the hand gestures of differently-able people to react suitably and move the hand gripper (which contains spring coils similar to bones in human hand) based on the data from smart gloves. The methodology behind this research is that the analog signals produced in the flex sensor due to the gesture action are transferred to the servo motors to do a similar action in the 3D printed prosthetic hand through the Wi-Fi module. This research project involves two Arduino microcontrollers for communicating and controlling applications in both master and slave sections. A number of flex sensors are placed in the glove to get readings of the motion of human fingers and it is transmitted through the Wi-Fi module by using the Arduino microcontroller. The transmitted signals are received by the Wi-Fi module in the slave section through the Arduino microcontroller and further uses this signal to control various servo motors and it controls the slave robotic hand by using the ropes attached between the servo motor and 3D printed parts. Not only for differently-able people, but the enlarged model of this project can also be used in industries to handle hazardous, harmful, high temperatures and harmful things.

Development of prosthetic hand for children using underactuated mechanisms with gear trains

Development of prosthetic hand for children using underactuated mechanisms with gear trains

Design and Implementation of Arch Function for Adaptive Multi-Finger Prosthetic Hand

Although arch motions of the palm substantially contribute to frequent hand grasping, they are usually neglected in the development of prosthetic hands which focuses on digit movements. We designed the arch function for its implementation on an adaptive multi-finger prosthetic hand. The digits from the developed hand can perform adaptive grasping, and two carpometacarpal joints enable the palm of the prosthetic hand to form an arch with the thumb. Moreover, the arch posture can be passively released, mimicking the human hand switching between sphere and medium wrap grasps according to the situation. Other requirements such as weight, cost, and size limitations for hand prostheses were also considered. As a result, we only used three actuators fully embedded in the palm through a novel tendon-driven transmission. Although the prosthetic hand is almost the same size of an adult hand, it weighs only 146 g and can perform 70% of the 10 most frequent grasps.

1-DOF Finger Mechanism Design for Anthropomorphic Prosthetic Hand with Similarity Criteria for Human Hand Finger Movement

Development of prosthetic hands continues to be made to get prosthetic which has special characteristics, namely anthropomorphism. The anthropomorphic prosthetic design refers to the improvement and development of the design to the stage of the similarity of the prosthetic movement to human hand movements. This study carries the design of the anthropomorphic 1-DOF prosthetic finger mechanism to get prosthetic at an affordable price. The optimization criteria for the similarity of movement with the human hand are formulated with two objective functions, namely the similarity of the range of motion and the total length of the finger that is completed simultaneously. The human hand movement that is a reference is the movement of conical object grasping on a standard size conical according to the maximum hand-held diameter anthropometry of an Indonesian people.

Design and Manufacture of Miniature Hydraulic Gear Pump for Bio-Medical Application

A miniaturize hydraulic gear pump is used for pressure generation in the fluidic actuators used in some of the medical and bio-medical devices such as blood pressure monitoring devices, artificial heart pump and prosthetic hands. A large variety of sizes of hydraulic pumps is commercially available. Proper design of the pump depends significantly on the application. Various designs of miniature hydraulic pumps have been developed in the past. In this paper, a custom made high pressure miniature hydraulic gear pump is designed and developed for bio medical application, which is not commercially available. Various design and analysis tools such as SolidWorks and ANSYS are used in developing the miniaturized gear pump. This paper aims at maximum pressure generation along with reduction in size of the pump to specifically reduce the weight of the devices. Comparative studies on different types of hydraulic pumps are carried out to select suitable pump for manufacturing. The evaluation and verification of design parameters are followed in design methodology. The analyses are carried out in ANSYS to study and understand deformation in gears. The gear pump is manufactured using both EDM (electro discharge machining) and conventional turning, milling and finally tested to verify its performance suitable for prosthetic hand application. A novel asymmetric metallic bellow flexible actuators (AMBFA) as the bending joints of the fingers are fabricated and tested using the developed pump. It is found that the pump is best suited for bending of these type of actuators in the development of prosthetic hand.