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Design and Development of Low Cost Hand Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation

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2nd International Conference for Innovation in Biomedical Engineering and Life Sciences (ICIBEL 2017)

Part of the book series: IFMBE Proceedings ((IFMBE,volume 67))

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The proposed project is a low cost hand exoskeleton that is design and developed for rehabilitation while the safety rules and regulation kept in mind. The aim of the project is to rehabilitate the stroke patients who is suffers from stroke on the one side of the body. This system to rehabilitate the patient to gain mobility in the fingers where a sound hand is used to control the unsound hand. The sound hand is consists of flex sensors attached to the leather glove on MCP, PIP and IP joints while the unsound hand consists of servo motors. The microcontroller used is Arduino Nano and the software used is Arduino interfaced with MATLAB for the GUI. The communication is wireless with the help of Bluetooth. The testing results were taken to be 92.75% efficient.

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Acknowledgements

A special thanks to Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation for funding the project. Similarly, thanks to APCORE (Asia Pacific University Center of Robotic Engineering) members for their valuable contribution to the development of the system. Finally, thanks to each and every one who contributed either directly or indirectly to the project.

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  1. School of Engineering, Asia Pacific University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Vickneswari Durairajah, Suresh Gobee, Waleed Rauf, Kok Sin Ngie & John Hong Aun Lim

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Correspondence to Vickneswari Durairajah .

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  1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Centre for Innovation in Medical Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Fatimah Ibrahim

  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Juliana Usman

  3. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Centre for Innovation in Medical Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Mohd Yazed Ahmad

  4. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Norhamizan Hamzah

  5. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Centre for Innovation in Medical Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Swe Jyan Teh

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Durairajah, V., Gobee, S., Rauf, W., Ngie, K.S., Lim, J.H.A. (2018). Design and Development of Low Cost Hand Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation. In: Ibrahim, F., Usman, J., Ahmad, M., Hamzah, N., Teh, S. (eds) 2nd International Conference for Innovation in Biomedical Engineering and Life Sciences. ICIBEL 2017. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 67. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7554-4_18

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