@inproceedings{1ee67e69c1fe4044a429b5997c0df938,
title = "Grasp rehabilitator: A mechatronic approach",
abstract = "Grasping and manipulation are critical for many activities of daily living. However, current approaches to grasp rehabilitation do not measure coordination of fingertip forces nor provide metrics for feedback to the user as an aid in regaining fingertip coordination. This paper presents a low-cost mechatronic approach to design and develop a portable and commercially viable grasp rehabilitation device. The performance of the newly developed grasp rehabilitator is compared with an existing research-grade grasping device on a grip and lift task. The results suggest that the newly developed grasp rehabilitator can provide key force measurements that are equivalent to the ones provided by the research-grade grasping device, indicating its validity and potential viability for rehabilitation.",
keywords = "Grasp, Load-cell, Mechatronics, Rehabilitation, Sensor, Stroke",
author = "Kumar, {Ashwin Raj} and Seda Bilaloglu and Preeti Raghavan and Vikram Kapila",
note = "Funding Information: 1 Corresponding author:
[email protected]. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under DRK-12 Grant DRL-1417769,§ RET Site Grant EEC-1542286,§ and ITEST Grant DRL-1614085;§ NY Space Grant Consortium under Grant 48240-7887§ and the National Institute of Health under grant R01HD071978† and under a Translation of Rehabilitation Engineering Advances and Technology (TREAT) grant NIH P2CHD086841.†,§ Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 2019 ASME; 2019 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2019 ; Conference date: 15-04-2019 Through 18-04-2019",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1115/DMD2019-3242",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Frontiers in Biomedical Devices, BIOMED - 2019 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2019",
publisher = "American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)",
booktitle = "Frontiers in Biomedical Devices, BIOMED - 2019 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2019",
}