Title
A 3D-printed prosthetic hand with modular reconfigurable fingers
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
Springer
Abstract
Partial hand and transradial amputations are among the most common levels of amputation. In the former case, a mechanical prosthesis is prescribed, while in the latter case either a mechanical or a myoelectric one are used depending on the patient’s preference and access to the technology. While a variety of prostheses designs are aimed to transradial amputees and plenty others are for partial hand amputations, like the 3D-printed open-source concepts that are activated by the user’s wrist, for a faster and more efficient treatment of hand amputations, one design should be adaptive for different levels of amputation without compromising the prosthesis performance. This work describes a powered prosthesis design with modular fingers and space constraints that allow it to be adapted to different levels of amputation. The prosthesis finger lengths could also be customized to user-specific anthropometry and, besides shafts, bolted connections and electronic components, the whole hand can be 3D printed.
Start page
93
End page
102
Volume
71
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Robótica, Control automático Ingeniería mecánica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85065968057
Resource of which it is part
Mechanisms and Machine Science
ISSN of the container
22110984
Sponsor(s)
Fig. 9.6 Gestures the prosthesis can perform. a Pinch. b Tripod. c Lateral. d Cylindrical. e Spherical. f Palmar extension. g Prosthesis fitted to a user with partial hand amputation Acknowledgements This work was supported by the National Council of Science, Technology and Innovation (CONCYTEC), for a Basic and Applied Research Grant, with grant number 160-2015.
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