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Kinematic Structures Description of Bionic Hand Based on VF Set

  • Xiancan Liu
  • , Pengying Bai
  • , Min Luo
  • , Meng Gao
  • , Qiang Zhan
  • CAS - Institute of Mechanics

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Abstract

This paper presents a method for describing kinematic structure of bionic hand based on VF (virtual finger) set. At first, a 20 DOFs (degrees of freedom) human hand kinematic model is built, which is expressed by five fingers' kinematic chains consisting of kinematic pairs and symbols that represent geometric relationships of kinematic pairs' axes. Based on the concept of VF, the hand fingers are divided into two types: VFAA having adduction/abduction motion and VFFE having flexion/extension motion. The concept of VF set comprising VFAAs and VFFEs is defined, human hand and six basic grasp postures are described by VF set. Then, the structures corresponding VFAA and VFFE are given according to active and passive forms of finger joints, and VFFE Structure-Base comprising 20 conventional structures is built. Based on VF set and the structures of VFAA and VFFE, VF sets and kinematic structures of several classic bionic hands are given.

Original languageEnglish
Article number012034
JournalIOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
Volume187
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 23 Mar 2017
Event2016 2nd International Conference on Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, ICMAE 2016 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Duration: 28 Dec 201630 Dec 2016

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