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Upper Limb Prosthesis for Patients with Congenital or Acquired Deformity

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XXVI Brazilian Congress on Biomedical Engineering

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A prototype of an upper limb prosthesis with a single control is presented in this paper. The prosthesis has 16 degrees of freedom, five fingers with independent joints and articulations in the hand’s palm, being able to reproduce movements of anthropomorphic and anthropometric joints and holds. A sensorized glove was used to generate a database for the bionic hand, with different types of movements. Tests were performed on volunteers with congenital and acquired deformities. The results showed that the upper limb prosthesis works adequately with both types of patients.

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    Ricardo Taoni Xavier, Aparecido Augusto de Carvalho, Fabian Castro, Fabio Agostinho Boris, José Paulo Codinhoto, Erica Regina Marani Daruichi Machado & Marcelo Augusto Assunção Sanches

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Xavier, R.T. et al. (2019). Upper Limb Prosthesis for Patients with Congenital or Acquired Deformity. In: Costa-Felix, R., Machado, J., Alvarenga, A. (eds) XXVI Brazilian Congress on Biomedical Engineering. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 70/1. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2119-1_111

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